An interview I did today with a blog called D.A. Confidential, which also had nice things to say about this very blog. The interview is mostly about writing and my own path to publication. The blogger, Mark Pryor, is an assistant D.A. in Texas. He is currently shopping his first novel. Good luck, Mark!
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“I recognized at a pretty early age — certainly I was pre-teens — I noticed that the school day was enough of the day to spend with my friends. I seemed to have a need to … be alone.” I am sure this is a common characteristic of writers, even gregarious ones. Certainly I needed to [...]
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“I have great suspicion of posterity. I’m quite prepared to be entirely forgotten five years after my death.” Somerset Maugham in a 1958 interview with the CBC. (via) More about Maugham here.
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More clips from this interview here.
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John Updike’s son David, also a writer, has a lovely piece in the Times’ Paper Cuts blog. It is a eulogy for his father which he delivered at a tribute in March at the New York Public Library. I found this passage particularly touching: But for someone who was getting famous, my father didn’t seem [...]
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“Without a novel I’m empty. I’m empty and not very happy.” From a writer’s point of view, it is touching to hear a giant like Roth confess to a feeling I know well. Here Roth discusses his writing process. I love the brief glimpse of Roth at his stand-up desk (beginning at about 3:23), composing [...]
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No new posts today. I’ve got writing to do. Here’s something to look at in the meantime, part one of Cormac McCarthy’s interview with Oprah. A great get for Oprah, I suppose, though I wish she’d questioned him more deeply. For years McCarthy famously refused to give interviews, so you hate to see Oprah squander [...]
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