Fascinating. Loved this interview. As an author of two memoirs, I particularly appreciated the part of this interview regarding the task of the present day memoirist not imposing their present-day insight onto the former, younger self. Bravo! Joe Armstrong of Joe the Human Substack.
Very thoughtful interview. You are using my (creative commons) photo of him. I took a class with him when he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, right at the time his first published short story, "Smokers" came out in ATLANTIC. He read some Raymond Chandler in class to illustrate distinctive style (although I don't think he cared much for Chandler) and that inspired me to write a private eye story in my next class with Ron Hansen (another fellow), which eventually was published.
Fascinating. Loved this interview. As an author of two memoirs, I particularly appreciated the part of this interview regarding the task of the present day memoirist not imposing their present-day insight onto the former, younger self. Bravo! Joe Armstrong of Joe the Human Substack.
Very thoughtful interview. You are using my (creative commons) photo of him. I took a class with him when he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, right at the time his first published short story, "Smokers" came out in ATLANTIC. He read some Raymond Chandler in class to illustrate distinctive style (although I don't think he cared much for Chandler) and that inspired me to write a private eye story in my next class with Ron Hansen (another fellow), which eventually was published.