Karapu Lit: Te Mafia o te Kutukutu Pukapuka
San Antonio, Texas
NĀ TE MEA HE "tangata nanakia, he whanoke" rātou, ā, he tino kore whakaute ki ngā pukapuka. He tino kaha te pānui pukapuka a tēnei "rōpū" nō Texas — e rua ā rātou pukapuka me ngā hui e rua i te marama.
E rua ngā mata kua mukua i te whakaahua o runga. He rite ki tētahi tūmomo whakawehi whakamate nā te Mafia?
Ko tētahi o rāua he hoa o mua nō tētahi atu; i wehe atu ia ko ia anake. Ā, ko tētahi i peia e mātou.
He rite ki te pūtu sima tō tikanga?
Kāo, engari ehara i te whakaaro kino.
Nahea koe i tiimata ai?
Kua roa a Mari "Munchy" Relue, tō mātou rangatira o ngā mahi taihara, e mahi ana i tētahi toa pukapuka, ā, i tukuna ia ki tana mahi. Ko te tīmatanga o te mahi taihara he huarahi māna ki te pupuri pukapuka i roto i tōna ao, me te whai wāhi anō hoki ki te kōrero mō ngā tuhinga me ngā tāngata taihara rite tonu te whakaaro.
Nā, e hia ngā tāngata nanakia?
17—tae atu ki te 5 ngā kaiwhakahaere: "Munchy" Relue, "Tommy Atomic" Scialpi, "Mumpo" Valdez, "Pocket" Garces, me Sarah "The Googler" Lewis.
He uaua ki te kore e kite i tō waitohu me ō T-hate tino ataahua.
He nui ā mātou taonga whakapaipai (T-hāte, putea tote, āpere). Waihoki, tirohia matou i runga i Facebook ki te pai koe ki ngā pou kāore i te tika e pā ana ki ngā pukapuka.....āhua.
Kei hea kōrua e tūtaki ai?
I te nuinga o te wā, i te whare o te mema. I ētahi wā i ngā pakihi o te rohe—i ngā wāhi katoa ka taea e mātou te inu waipiro me te whawhai.
Āe... pai. He mahi motuhake, he kai kaupapa? He mea pērā?
Ko ngā Ding Dong, ko te kai me te waipiro... he mahi motuhake ēnā?
Ko ngā Ding Dong anake. Ā, me pēhea rā i waho o ngā hui karapu o ia rā?
Ka tautoko mātou i tō mātou ao pukuhohe tū ā-rohe, ka tākaro kēmu ataata, ka kai, ka pāti, me ētahi atu.
Tata mataku ki te pātai... kei te mahi tūao ā-hapori koe?
Ka kōrero mātou mō taua mea. Ā, he nui tēnā hei whakaoho i te pai o te whakaaro mō mātou anō. [Āe...kāore i tika kia pātai. —Etita.]
Ā, me pēhea ngā ture o te karapu?
Ko te ture tuatahi o te karapu pukapuka kaua e kōrero mō te karapu pukapuka... Aue, te mate mōu i mea ai kia takahia e mātou tā mātou ture kotahi.
Āe...he tūmomo whakawehi tēnā?
Kaore e tino mohio...
I runga i te wāhi haumaru ake... He tikanga motuhake tāu mō te whiriwhiri pukapuka. Me pēhea te mahi?
Ka whiriwhiria e mātou tētahi kaupapa mai i tētahi putea paearu—ngā pukapuka e tīmata ana ki ētahi reta, ngā kaituhi takatāpui, ngā pūtaiao pakiwaitara, me ētahi atu. Ka kawea mai e ngā mema ētahi whakaaro pukapuka e tutuki ana i ngā paearu. Kātahi ka tangohia matapōkeretia tētahi pukapuka mai i aua kōwhiringa.
Nā, me kōrero tāua mō ngā mea i pānuihia e koe i te tau kua hipa.
E rua ā mātou hui i te marama, nō reira ka honoa katoatia. Engari anei:
Ngā Waiore o te Kāinga (Matiu Norman) ♦ Te Mist (Tīpene Kīngi) ♦ Te Kereme mō te Ataahua Moe (Anne Rice) ♦ Rapeti, Rere (Hoani Updike) ♦ whakaaro i (Jane Austen) ♦ Te Whakamoemiti i a Jenna Fox (Mary E. Pearson) ♦ Big Sur (Hāki Kerouac) ♦ Te Kai i te Dinosaur (Chuck Klosterman) ♦ Rite Player Kotahi (Ernest Cline) ♦ Te Kōrero mō O (Pauline Reage) ♦ I hea koe i haere ai, e Bernadette (Maria Semple) ♦ Ngā mea i tautohetia e māua ko taku hoa wahine (Mil Millington) ♦ Wairangi (Christopher Moore) ♦ Ngā Tohutohu mō te Ngaru Wera (Maggie O'Farrell) ♦ Ngā Manawa: Te Tangi a te Tūpāpaku (SG Browne) ♦ He kōrero whakakatakata tēnei (Ned Vizzini) ♦ Nga Tangata: He Korero (Matt Haig) ♦ He Tūpāpaku pea koe, me ētahi atu Pūrongo Kino (Cracked.com) ♦ Aroha Geek (Katherine Dunn) ♦ Tuhinga (Chuck Palahniuk) ♦ I tangohia e te T-Rex (Christie Sims) ♦ He Orangework Orange (Anthony Burgess).
He tino pai ki a koe ngā mea katoa?
Rite Player Kotahi (Cline) ♦ I hea koe i haere ai, e Bernadette (Māmā noa iho) ♦ Nga Tangata: He Korero (Haig) ♦ Aroha Geek (Dunn) ♦ Te Ira Tangata me ngā Tōnga o te Rā (Tim Sandlin).
He aha ngā mea e pouri ana koe?
Room (Emma Donoghue) — I riri mātou ki te kōrero kino i tuhia, ā, ko te nuinga o mātou i kino ki te tamaiti me tōna whaea.
Big Sur (Kerouac) — I tino hoha mātou.
I te nuinga o te wā, me pēhea e whakaahua ai koe i tō karapu me ōna mema?
He rōpū taitamariki, haurangi, he hunga aroha ki ngā tuhinga mātou. He ahua kino mātou, engari he hunga pai tonu mātou.