Where's My Wand?

Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Eric Poole: Author One-on-One Josh Kilmer-Purcell is the bestselling author of the memoirs The Bucolic Plague and I Am Not Myself These Days, the novel Candy Everybody Wants, and the star of Planet Green's documentary television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. He and his partner, Brent Ridge, divide their time between Manhattan and the Beekman Farm. Recently he sat down with Eric Poole to discuss their work. Read the resulting interview below, or turn the tables to see what happened when Eric interviewed Josh. Josh: Is your mother still terrorizing you? And if so, does she do it slower now? Eric: Fortunately, she has her original hips, so I can outrun her. But she’s a completely different person now. Oh, she still vacuums the garage, but I haven’t heard her go ballistic over a kitchen infraction (Why, God, why is there water in this sink?!) in decades. Although this is purely a hypothesis since we prefer to speculate wildly rather than ask, my sister and I think that Mother’s behavior when we were young stemmed from perhaps not wanting children, at least at th