The line between fiction and biography is much blurrier, and I am much less interested in that line: part two of our conversation with Eva Crocker and Lisa Moore
Is there a difference between, or even a line between, fiction and biography? LM. It’s a really good question and five years ago, ten years ago, I would have said…
“To give attention to something you really have to be kind of egoless”: a conversation with Lisa Moore and Eva Crocker
“Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up…
“It was like writing an historical novel, but the history I was working with was one I had created”: Part two of our conversation with Michael Crummey
There’s a terrific storm in The Adversary – is this based on a real storm? It’s based on some real storms that I’ve experienced. It’s based to a certain extent…
Michael Crummey: I’m waiting for an idea that has enough gravitational pull
When you were writing The Innocents, did you know that you would write The Adversary as well? No, I had no idea. When did you know that you were going…
Old Christmas Day
It’s been called one of the greatest short stories ever written: James Joyce‘s The Dead, set on The Feast of the Epiphany, opening as Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta,…