Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Novelist Tim Dorsey, author of Hurricane Punch. (ORIGINALLY POSTED APRIL 2007) Order Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey, available from Amazon.com in print or ebook by clicking on the book cover above! The first time I tried my hand at fiction in high school, it was a way of dealing with people and issues that I couldn’t handle in real life. My friends thought it was hysterical and that I was a little twisted. In college, I again used fiction writing for my personal aims, this time to deal with my frustrating inability to get laid as a freshman at the University of Miami. I thought it might be a way of leveling the playing field. It didn’t change my virginal status, but as the manuscript was handed around the dormitory, I earned a different kind of reputation. I was the guy who remembered and chronicled all the stuff that happened when everyone else was falling-down drunk, and I was the guy who, if you messed with me, would get even with you at the typewriter. My father once said to me, “Nothing ba