Character Q&A: Adam Fischl of Evy Journey's The Golden Manuscripts #characterinterview

 

Today's guest is Adam Fischl from inside the pages of The Golden Manuscripts by Evy Journey.  It is a pleasure to have him with us at The Literary Nook!

What is your name?

Adam Fischl

What do you look like? Where are you today and what are you doing?

I’m in my late forties, my hair is thinning and graying on top, but you can see it’s blonde underneath. My face has turned plumpish, and my eyes have gotten squinty. And I’ve developed a bit of a paunch.

Right now, I’m sitting in my office, shuffling through routine paperwork.

Describe the outside of your home. 

I live in a 1900 sq ft one-story California bungalow with trees all around the house. You see this set-up all over this area. Someone comes every two weeks to clean up my yard of fallen leaves from my trees and trees that encroach from my neighbors.

What’s the mood outside right now?

Our street is rather busy. It’s on a route that leads to the university two miles away. So, it’s the usual din from cars going to and from campus. But still, it’s nothing like you’d get in the big cities. 

What is your favorite piece of clothing?  

My stained painter’s smock. It’s seen me through a lot of projects.

What scares you? 

That generations from now, people will find my work commonplace.

How would your parents describe you? 

They’re proud of me—the first in the family to teach at a big university. But we don’t see each other much. Once a year maybe. They live in the Midwest.

What’s the last thing you do before you go to bed at night?

I read one of my art books. I have a big library and I collect books, many of which I haven’t read. 

Who is your best friend? 

Apart from my wife who’s also an artist? I’d say that lately it’s Nathan’s dad. He’s a well-respected neurosurgeon who’s developed a late interest in the arts. The last few months, I’ve been to their house for dinner maybe half a dozen times.

Do you believe the author did a bang-up job of portraying you as a character that everyone would love to read about?

I’ve never truly understood what bang-up means. Anyway, as an art professor, I hold a lot of power and prestige. So, I can’t complain. And I believe that despite playing a secondary role, the author portrayed me to come across as a flesh-and-blood character with my own idiosyncrasies. In fact, I think she modeled me after one of her own art teachers.

 

 

About the Book   

A young woman of Asian/American parentage has lived in seven different countries and is anxious to find a place she could call home. An unusual sale of rare medieval manuscripts sends her and Nathan—an art journalist who moonlights as a doctor—on a quest into the dark world of stolen art.  For Clarissa, these ancient manuscripts elicit cherished memories of children’s picture books her mother read to her, nourishing a passion for art.  When their earnest search for clues whisper of old thieves and lead to the unexpected, they raise more questions about an esoteric sometimes unscrupulous art world that defy easy answers.   Will this quest reward Clarissa with the sense of home she longs for? This cross-genre literary tale of self-discovery, art mystery, travel, and love is based on the actual theft by an American soldier of illuminated manuscripts during World War II.

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About the Author 

Evy Journey writes. Stories and blog posts. Novels that tend to cross genres. She’s also a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse. Evy studied psychology (M.A., University of Hawaii; Ph.D. University of Illinois). So her fiction spins tales about nuanced characters dealing with contemporary life issues and problems. She believes in love and its many faces. Her one ungranted wish: To live in Paris where art is everywhere and people have honed aimless roaming to an art form. She has visited and stayed a few months at a time.

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