![]() ![]() What’s the best thing you’ve ever read about typewriters?Ĭan’t say I’ve ever read about a typewriter, but I did see one that made me sit up and take notice. Bukowski wrote short stories that were prose poems, yet I read them as the vignettes of life that, to me, rate as full-blown short stories. The Cheever stories, the Vonnegut stories, the Salinger stories (especially those I had to find online, before he became THAT Salinger). Which short story writers do you most admire? What makes for a great short story? You just wrote your first collection of short fiction. I want to see the world accurately, and history examined is search of the detail of truth. Which novelists do you especially enjoy reading?Īlan Furst, Philip Kerr, Amor Towles, John Scalzi.Īuthenticity. In 2011 I finally made it all the way from “Call me Ishmael” to “It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.” Which classic novel did you recently read for the first time? And “Cloud Atlas,” for me, reached the high country - so different in form and function from the Mitchell book, but exact in every detail nonetheless. “Forrest Gump” was a high-wire interpretation of Winston Groom’s book. The screenplay folded into the six novellas hand in glove. “The Green Mile” was a perfect adaptation from Stephen King. Among those, which source material was your favorite? You’ve already starred in many movie adaptations of novels. ![]() A brilliant creation from the oh-so-complicated typing of Ellroy. He is so smart and off-world in his abilities, the L.A.P.D. In the fiction world, I’d like a whack at James Ellroy’s Lloyd Hopkins character - a cop who is such a genius the only work for him is police work. But those that loved him as a friend loved him very much. ![]() That life, and all that attention, made for an inevitable tragedy by the 1980s. He was an actor, made movies, and was both beloved (by many) and dismissed (by many), was crazy-making good-looking and traveled in the upper echelons of the red world. He was famous in the Soviet Union and East Germany and all over the Communist world. I still am young enough to play Dean Reed, the American who, starting in the 1960s, was considered to be a big American singing star, but only to the Communist world. If you could play one fictional character from a novel on stage or screen, who would it be and why? And one real-life figure you first encountered in a work of nonfiction? That is as simple as “if you don’t buy it you will never need it.” Turns out that Buddha was a sharpie. This distillation of all that Buddhism says: “The person who craves nothing cannot suffer.” From Harari and “Sapiens.” That made me say “eek”, as there is nothing in there about God, or the indifferent universe, or our need to be part of a greater connected humanity. What’s the most interesting thing you learned from a book recently? That’s how I finally read “Moby-Dick,” the book everyone pretends to know … And, when someone tells me they finally read a book they could never crack, I take a whack out of a sense of a challenge. I stack up the books, three columns six or eight books at a time, and just wear that pile down. What do I know, and how little do I know, and is there more I want to know? That, and certain authors who never let me down: Sarah Vowell, Ada Calhoun, Bill Bryson, William Manchester, Dave Eggers. ![]()
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