The Book Festival you can enjoy in the bath. Interviews, Readings and Rambling chat. Journalist James Kidd talks to (not at the same time): Hanya Yanagihara, Gary Younge, Richard Russo, Tom Drury, David Mitchell, Michel Faber, LS Hilton, DBC Pierre, Sloane Crosley, Karen Joy Fowler, Vendela Vida, David Gates, Laura Lippman, Tomas Gonzalez. Amit Chaudhuri. New episode: Amanda Coe.
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Episode 20 - Tom Drury Part 3
In the third part of my conversation with Tom Drury, we rewind to his days studying creative writing with Robert Coover, 'a great teacher'.
----more---- After a discussion about realism and seriousness, Drury moves on to:
- his early short stories
- his attempt to write different novels
- 'The kind of sentences you want to make, it is not a static thing'
- David Hockney and Drury's interest in art
- the visual nature of Drury's prose
- time and breaking the fourth wall
- why Drury continues to write about Grouse County
- 'They are my repertory company'
- why he chooses not to write about Grouse County
- Drury's work in progress
- inspiration from folk tales, magic and Faust
- 'I have never written about Mephistopholes'
- the role of religion in Drury's life and work
- on death, 'the unknowable thing'
- Drury's 'mid-western paranormal noir'
- his own return to Iowa and the possible affect on his work
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