Bobby Stanton

PO'ed Bobby Stanton

Shhhh! R. J. Stanton, the writer of the novel, POed: Post Office, A View From Below is talking with the novel's main character, Bo Morgan. Let's listen in:

Bo: Nobody's going to read this book.
RJ: You have to have faith, Bo. There's room for our stuff out there.
Bo: Yeah, well, you work at the post office for a while and see where your faith ends up. All they want is books by Amy Tan...or J. K. Rowling. People are sick of hearing white guys whine about their lives.
RJ: Not true. They'll want to read about how you tried to do something. How you became a supervisor so you could try to beat an environment that is unlike any other. How you thought you could make a difference. You were the R. P. McMurphy of the post office.
Bo: No I wasn't. I didn't win. McMurphy won. He changed people's lives. I lost.
RJ: You know and I know those crazy bastards lives went right back to the way they were a week after McMurphy got his lobotomy. Your story is more realistic. They only life you saved was your own-a modern day hero.... You chose yourself over the machine. You won. Your brains weren't whipped into mush. You would have died a metaphorical death if you stayed.
Bo: Ahh. I get it. That's the point of your book.
RJ: Yes-the literary importance.
Bo: Hmmm. I wouldn't get to high on yourself there, RJ; everybody is going to think it's just a satire.