The Budapest Bardroom

Aubrey Ramage-Lay is a graduate of the Eugene Lang College of the New School University. He has also attended many other excellent universities such as University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Massachusetts College of Art. Currently he is making fine art as well as writing and exploring life around the globe. He currently resides in Budapest, Hungary.

Aubrey’s first book, Walking as Saints, was published in 2009. The book is about the chains of perfection; how free will is impossible if you cannot make the wrong choices. It is about Lucifer’s struggle to break free of the perfection of God, from the inevitability of the Plan. The book also ask the question which came first, the Planner or the Plan.

1. Are you currently working on anything, and why’s it taking so long?

“I am currently writing a novel about a pair of foreigners who come to Budapest and have their identities broken down and rebuilt. It is about how travel changes you. It is taking so long because I am so lazy.”

2. Do you actually have moments of inspiration or is writing just a process of slogging day in and day out?

“I am occasionally inspired to write but mostly it is just a question of slogging, again, I am very lazy.”

3. What’s the last thing you read that made your hair stand up on end?

“No question, it was Haunting by Chuck Palahunik. Hair raising for any writer I would think.  It’s a ghost story about the creative process!”

4. What would you have been if you hadn’t become a writer?

“I am also an artist so I guess that’s what I would be doing, I have also done just about every job anyone has ever thought of. I never want to work in an office again that’s for sure though.”

5. What’s the worst thing about writing a book?

“All the typing.”