Austin is home to a lot of weird stuff: bat tributes, floating marching bands, Hippie Hollow. In his , Dreams and Shadows, Austin author C. Robert Cargill delves deep into the dark heart of the city鈥檚 inner weirdness, using a little myth and legend as punctuation for a truly unique story. He spoke with KUT鈥檚 Emily Donahue about his work and his inspiration.
Essentially, mythology is religion that somebody doesn鈥檛 believe anymore; that鈥檚 really what it is. And most of our fantasy comes from telling adventure stories or tragedies through other people鈥檚 religions. I was just fascinated by that idea and wanted to bring all that together and bring folklore into one grand, unified theory of a possible world where all of this folklore actually could exist.
Cargill will be at tonight at 7 for a reading and to sign copies of his book.
