Introducing Get To Know the WHQR Staffers, a fun way to learn more about the WHQR team, as they answer the Proust Questionnaire!
Meet Reporter Nikolai Mather!
Q: Who are your favorite writers?
A: Currently: Jamie Hood, Anne Carson and Willa Cather
Lifetime: Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor and Toni Morrison
Q: Where would you most like to live?
A: Detroit, Michigan or Tallinn, Estonia.
Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A: Drinking an ice cold beer on somebody's porch in Jackson, Mississippi.
Q: If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be?
A: A better writer.
Q: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
A: Maybe it sounds greedy, but it would probably be to make myself richer. I know so many people crowdfunding for legal fees, rent, gender affirming surgeries, etc. – it'd be so cool to snap my fingers and pay all those things off.
Q: What is your greatest extravagance?
A: Trips to see my friends, fancy vinegars, modular synthesizer accessories.
Q: What is it that you most dislike?
A: 99% of the notifications on my phone.
Q: What do you consider your greatest achievement?
A: Getting to introduce my mom to the guy who makes the podcasts she's loved for years (Ira Glass).
Q: Who are your heroes in real life?
A: Wendy Carlos, Tina Turner and my mom.
Q: How would you like to die?
A: Dealer's choice!