A very excellent look behind the scenes of Joshua Whitehead's writing and storytelling craft. Having read Jonny Appleseed before this book was really beneficial to my understanding and appreciation of the Joshua's discussions of character and story creation--I loved the imagery of his stories staying attached to him like umbilical cords. I do kind of feel like this book wouldn't have hit quite as hard if I hadn't read Jonny Appleseed first, since they discuss it at such length throughout. I liked the discussions of translation in this book and how authors don't owe it to their readers to translate non-English languages into English--that it's on the reader to do that work or it's simply not for them; how it's like an easter egg for speakers of those languages; how the reader's work of translating language is like a collaboration between them and the author. The comments about the inaccessibility of academic writing being a hindrance or barrier to most people from learning about social justice, theory, and philosophy was so true, and I loved that he slides these topics into his fiction books to try and make them more accessible to a wider audience. The images and layout of this little book was also visually stunning. It did seem like a lot of the interviewer's questions came down to her not realizing that something that was included in Jonny Appleseed was common in Indigenous culture or in the Peguis First Nation and that he was trying to portray those day to day experiences and styles of communicating accurately (such as the comfortability discussing sex, the importance/informativeness of dreams, the humor within his book, etc.)