Episode 51 - David Gates: Part 2
from This Writing Life Hosted by James Kidd
In the (summer delayed) second part of our chat with David Gates, we go on (we can't go) with the influence of Samuel Beckett and Jane Austen. ----more---- 'What I learned from Austen is that every character in a work thinks he or she is the protagonist' fiction and the drama of conflicting visions Gates, comedy and social combat in Emma closed circuit minds and Gates' characters 'I'm 69. I have calmed down, somewhat. It is not the buzzing anxiety of being in my 20s' 'There is a way in which you always write like yourself' 'There is a lot of sameness there' - Gates' literary riffs Hitchcock, Rebecca, Psycho and Gates' obsession movie trivia literary progression or repetition - Gates v Joyce and the Beatles Back to Beckett - from prose to plays 'I don't know how to say it without sounding pretentious' Target or Tar-jay - jokes and time Part three will be up in less than three months.
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