Just One Thing with Catherine Wong

Catherine Wong’s April issue flash “With All the Force of a Great Typhoon” is one of those stories that you’re tempted to read in a single, giant breath. Here they share just one thing about the piece:

“This Christmas I saw Vampire's Kiss for the first time with my cousins, on a streaming service with so many ads that we began at midnight and didn't finish until well after 3am. Since then I've been falling fast and deep into a Nicolas Cage rabbit hole so profoundly large it feels like one of those storms that starts to generate its own weather around it. In the thick of this vortex I sent in a series of revisions in which the Object of Admiration in this piece declares that her favorite movie is Face/Off. I received the piece back with all of the other revisions kept and the Face/Off line surgically marked for removal. Grateful to the editorial team for keeping me in check here, even if I did take screenshots of the edits and send them to all of my beleaguered friends, who were completely unsympathetic and send their regards and thanks to the editorial team as well.”