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Me: What are the disadvantages to this policy?
Maggie: Can't have your "product" sold in chain stores like Walmart that, sadly, make up a fairly large portion of sales.
Me: Who's decision was it to put a lable on Mr. Nice Girl?
Maggie: Dunno, guess you have to after so many uses of profanity.
Me: Did you welcome this notion?
Maggie: Yes, I was proud.
Me: Any advantages?
Maggie: Not these days. When these stickers first appeared, it was sort of this badge of obsenity honor. Now, who cares.
Me: You rule, did you know that?
Maggie: Thank you.
Me: Your new CD does not have a warning lavel, did you tone down or is that just coincidence?
Maggie: Coincidence. In a way, it's more devious to make a point without obsenity. You can be utterly FOUL and DISGUSTING without it. See Brit author Will Self, who masks the most disgusting shit in huge beautiful antiquated words.
Me: Why Poetry (my own curiosity)?
Maggie: Do you mean why do I write poetry? I don't. I just write short prose pieces. And now long ones. (Novels). There is never any notion of "oh, I should do THIS now" I just am forever doing exactly what I wanna do and sometimes it pays the bills.
Me: I find it interesting that your first CD had a sticker, but books don't carry stickers at all while they are sometimes just as explicit ie Emotional Idiot and any Irvine Welsh novel. Any comments?
Maggie: Regretably, it's because, comparitively speaking, NOBODY reads. I mean, if you compare the sales of music products vs. literature. Literature sells so abysmally that the Jesse Helms and Newt Gingriches don't have to worry. It's not like kids would ever actually READ or anything. If books sold a lot when I'm sure we'd have problems. Of course, sometimes something does get banned and, back in the 50's and 60's, my friend Barney Rosset who owned Grove Press, had to stand trial on behalf of Naked Lunch and Tropic Of Cancer and...Lady Chatterly's Lover!
Also, Jim Goad, the guy who puts out the zine "ANSWER ME" is endlessly taken to court for obscenity. So it does happen. Just not as widely.
Me: Do people ever come up to you and say "Hey you really offended me"?
Maggie: Never. Not even my mom.
Good luck, be well, and make people BUY MY BOOK!!!
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