Do or diorama

Turns out that I missed a trick when I was promoting my book The Last Three Miles. Instead of just focusing on readings, public talks and trying not to grunt too many times during radio appearances, I should have been doing like Sloane Crosley, who not only constructed dioramas illustrating each of the essays in her book I Was Told There’d Be Cake, she also recorded a video tour for each diorama.  

Since the paperback edition of The Last Three Miles probably won’t be out until the fall, I have some time to contemplate building a diorama of the Pulaski Skyway, with profiles of Frank Hague and Teddy Brandle looming in the background while little bursts of gunfire flash in the phragmites below. Since interest in the book was significantly goosed along by the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, I should consider building it in a way that would allow me to demonstrate what a Skyway collpase would look like.