What does it mean to live an invisible life; and what can fiction make visible? In this excellent interview at JMWW, Curtis Smith talks with Lance Olsen talks about Henry Darger, An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies (Dzanc Books), outsider art, the mysteries of identity, the ethics of imagination, and writing as an act of empathy. Plus: how “serious art […] functions as an extended method of contemplation for writer and reader alike about a philosophical difficulty.”