Chicago is the main character, the setting, the obsession, and the historical grist for the mill of Peter Orner’s most recent novel, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter. In conversation about his hometown with Novel Dialogue host Sarah Wasserman, Peter brings us into a lost pocket of time. It is the early 1960s, when Chicagoans partied inContinue reading “10.3 Just Slightly Outside the Circle: Peter Orner and Sarah Wasserman (EH)”
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10.2 Beautiful Sentences Matter: Billy-Ray Belcourt and Matt Hooley (SW)
Can a novel with a singular voice also be a chorus? Can it reject the conventions of the novel and still be a novel? Poet, essayist, and novelist Billy-Ray Belcourt tells critic Matt Hooley how his desire to write a novel that “would sound like something else,” led him to produce A Minor Chorus, hisContinue reading “10.2 Beautiful Sentences Matter: Billy-Ray Belcourt and Matt Hooley (SW)”
10.1 Extreme Circumstances, Extreme Reactions: Aaron Gwyn and Sean McCann (JP)
Aaron Gwyn is the author of four novels: The World Beneath, Wynne’s War, and, most recently, two wonderfully linked historical novels, All God’s Children, which won the Oklahoma Book award, and The Cannibal Owl. In his conversation with Sean McCann of Wesleyan (A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government and Gumshoe America: Hard-BoiledContinue reading “10.1 Extreme Circumstances, Extreme Reactions: Aaron Gwyn and Sean McCann (JP)”
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