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William J. Cagle: You have many excellent and eye-catching story titles in this collection (for instance “When the Astronauts Landed in Our Neighborhood,” “Three-Month Autopsy,” or “Migratory Patterns”) but The Museum of Future Mistakes, the name of the opening story, was chosen for the collection’s title. What do you feel like this story’s title communicates about the collection as a whole?
James R. Gapinski: Many of the stories in this book find characters in existential crisis, often navigating a significant change and worrying about implications for the future. The concept of putting these insecurities and anxieties on display in a museum fits the overall experience of the collection nicely, almost like each story is a different exhibit.
