![]() ![]() Tom was an immensely knowledgeable fan of speculative fiction, particularly its intersections with Caribbean literature. Lord writes speculative fiction from a non-traditional perspective one thing this has meant is that she is deceptively Caribbean in her work and its underlying outlook. She interviewed Tom about his novel Of Water and Rock for her blog, A Grain of Pure Salt. ![]() Karen Lord, a Barbadian whose second novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds, came out a few months after Tom died, knew him, too. I mention Tom, who passed away very early in 2013 at the age of sixty, in context. He was a writer, and he valued the role of emotion in the creative process: putting down words, considering their ability to move the reader, yes but the need also for the writer to feel those words as he or she writes them. My friend Thomas Armstrong used to talk about the emotion of a work. ![]()
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