interviews

Mar. 25, 2010

An Interview

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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Dec. 16, 2009

John Irving: “A need to be alone”

“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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Dec. 9, 2009

Maugham: “great suspicion of posterity”

“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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Oct. 28, 2009

Philip Roth on the novel’s “cultic” future

More clips from this interview here.

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Aug. 10, 2009

Remembering Updike the Father

John Updike’s son writes a eulogy for his father

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Jun. 27, 2009

How Writers Write: Philip Roth

Philip Roth discusses his writing process (video)

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Jun. 1, 2009

WriterTube: Cormac McCarthy

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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