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Annie Proulx - Interviews & Articles
Front-Ranger:
What a great interview! A little of everything...except not enough about Brokeback Mountain! :P I obtained Red Desert when I was in Laramie this spring. It's a beautiful and comprehensive book. I've set my sights on seeing the Flaming Gorge this summer or fall.
Jeff Wrangler:
Yes, indeed, what a great interview! I feel now that I know Annie Proulx better than I ever knew her before.
I didn't realize there were still wild horses in Wyoming. How nice! :)
Front-Ranger:
Just finished reading an interview between AP and Michael Silverblatt, who anchors a radio book show in Santa Monica, CA. The interview was included in The Brokeback Book, by William Handley.
She was describing the experience of writing Brokeback Mountain, which took six months, double the time it usually takes her to write a novel. "...once I got started on it I was really compelled by something. Let's just say that a strange hand came from above and was guiding the pen part of the time. There was something in the story that was larger than I had thought it would be in the beginning--and I don't know what it is. THere's a universality there that--I don't know where it came from. It just came. It just happened."
This is a wonderful interview and I will post a few other quotes. Silverblatt is quite perceptive.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on August 23, 2011, 11:25:55 am ---Just finished reading an interview between AP and Michael Silverblatt, who anchors a radio book show in Santa Monica, CA. The interview was included in The Brokeback Book, by William Handley.
She was describing the experience of writing Brokeback Mountain, which took six months, double the time it usually takes her to write a novel. "...once I got started on it I was really compelled by something. Let's just say that a strange hand came from above and was guiding the pen part of the time. There was something in the story that was larger than I had thought it would be in the beginning--and I don't know what it is. THere's a universality there that--I don't know where it came from. It just came. It just happened."
This is a wonderful interview and I will post a few other quotes. Silverblatt is quite perceptive.
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Oh, that sounds like Annie hasn't figured out the 60 000 dollar question either.
Why?
Why are we like this (there's a thread of the same name by Katherine)?
What is it in this story that grabbed hold of us?
After 5+ years, I haven't figured it out for myself, at least not completely. It just is.
At least the not-knowing doesn't drive me crazy anymore. I made peace with the "Why?" question and acceptance grew over the years.
Front-Ranger:
Here's a little more from the interview, Chrissi, that might provide some insight to you.
During the interview, he talks about the differences between his reactions to the story and the movie, saying, "...there was kind of a movie-sadness sauce that somehow got ladled over the material, whereas the story is written in somewhat of the stoic way of these men." Because of her writing style his "emotions just leaked out through me unawares. It came as a real startlement to me." (I think his Ennis-like way of articulating this really must have endeared him to AP.)
Annie responded that she had hoped it would work this way so that "for the reader what's inside is necessary to complete the story and fill it out and put the meaning in it."
Here's a little about Michael Silverblatt.
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