Lisa Moore on her novel Alligator

Lisa Moore 's fiction has been published widely in literary magazines and in anthologies. Her two collections of short stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open have received praise for their 'supple sensuality and emotional authenticity.' She lives in Newfoundland. We talked there, and here about her recently published first novel, Alligator, about tea, pine martins, time, the exotic, Tasmania, Cezanne, St. John's as a bowl of oranges, Cubism, being in the present, survival, light, if it's ever okay not to be good, cadence and wit in storytelling, and the colour blue…quite a few things really.