I conducted this interview with David Leo Rice on a bench in Carroll Park in Brooklyn around midnight at the very end of summer. We discussed his new book The Squimbop Condition, which was serialized in the Southwest Review between 2021 and 2024, and has recently been published by 11:11 Press with illustrations by Jan Robert Duennweller. Ben Russell: I have been a fan since reading The New House and Angel House. We just saw the movie Weapons.