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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
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P U N   A B O U T   D E A T H G O E S   H E R E F O R   T I T L E : A N   I N T E R V I E W W I T H   J I M   K E L L E R , G R O U N D S K E E P E R A T   T H E M A R Y S V I L L E C E M E T E R Y . BY DAN KENNEDY - - - - Q: So, you are the groundskeeper for this small-town cemetery in Marysville? Keller: [Confused as to why I am asking this in person, when I seemed to know this after talking to him twice on the phone to schedule this interview.] Q: Yes, you are. I'm asking for the tape recorder. Keller: [Hands me the tape recorder.] Q: No, I mean… for the record. Keller: This is for a record? Q: I mean I'm asking you that question for the record. Keller: This for the Internet, right? Q: The record just means like, you know, it's on file or whatever. It's, like, okay to print if you say it's on the record. But yeah, it's for a literary website. Keller: You mean helping kids read? Q: Sort of. I mean it's more adults than kids, really. Keller: An adult website? Q: No. It's uh, like, a writing website. Keller: I don't think death is good for a kid's website, and I think it's a little weird if it's for a porno thing. Q: Oh… yeah, I know. Okay. So, what's the strangest part of your job? Keller: Well, what do you think? It's a cemetery, so… that's the strangest thing about it. Q: Right, I just mean… Keller: That's like asking a prison warden, "What is unique about the place where you work, sir?" [Switches to "stupid guy" type of voice to answer his own question.] "Well, duhhhh… let's see. What's unique about the place where I work? Duhhh… it's a prison." Q: I know, I just mean… like, what's the… strangest part of your job, I guess? Keller: Okay, well… that's the strangest part. Q: Right. The strangest part is the cemetery part? Keller: Well, it's not the landscaping. A lot of people mow lawns. Q: Yeah. Keller: Q: Okay, well… Keller: I guess I'm just not sure what you want to know. Q: No, I know. I guess… just. Well, actually this is fine. Maybe I'll call you later if I think of something else. But, yeah. Okay. Thanks. Keller:     OTHER McSWEENEY'S STORIES: - - - - Unpublished Coda to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird By Tim Carvell Please Remember to Suck Off His Finger with a High-Powered Vacuum, Part Two By Kevin Feeney Please Remember to Suck Off His Finger with a High-Powered Vacuum, Part One By Kevin Feeney Engulfed: A Dispatch from the Front By Zev Borow and Stephen Sherrill Paul Collins Week: Excerpt No. Two from Geoffrey Pyke's To Ruhleben — And Back, a New Title from the Collins Library Edited by Paul Collins

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