The story of Edna Pontellier’s struggle with the limits her culture placed on women made a deep and lasting impression on me. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, which I first read in college. Which novels have had the most impact on you as a writer? Is there a particular book that made you want to write? Sue Monk Kidd: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë As Now.” A really, really beautiful poem. Especially his beautiful poem, “An Agony.
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I think Amiri Baraka’s work made me want to write poems too. Wilson called Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man. Just finished Victoria Chang’s new book, and about to pick up a new book by Ronaldo V. And just beginning a book of poems by a young poet named Valzhyna Mort that looks exciting. And about to read, for the first time, Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But right now I’m re-reading and re-reading Robert Hayden’s poems, which are absolutely beautiful and brilliant. But a few-of, really, zillions, so this is an incomplete list-would be Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Philip Roth and Junot Díaz on the novel side and, lord, the poets-too many to even mention. I love so many different writers from different eras. That shift was important to me because an unstable self was what I had to use. He switched constantly from speech to surrealism. He made it clear that an unprivileged American could be a writer and could have a lot to talk about. It reminded me of Somerville, where I came from. He wrote in a complaining, American working class speech. If you could tap into that you could get a flow going. I realized it was important who was talking. I liked Franny & Zooey, really everything by J.D. I didn’t understand yet that that was the author. Maybe Little Women made me want to be a writer because Jo, the star of it, was a writer. They made me want to do drugs or have adventures, travel. Those didn’t make me want to be a writer. The 50s is childhood up to age ten, so myths, sci-fi. He died in 1995.Įileen Myles: Little Women, Louisa May Alcottĭo you remember what books you encountered, growing up in Massachusetts in the 1950s and 60s, that might have inspired you to want to become a writer? I just found what looks to be a sequel, Earthquake, on an old-books stall on West Third, and I intend to read it to my kids. He was the most wonderful writer for children. I remember it as the book that made me want to write. So my first literary impulse came out of George Stevens.Ī Jamaican writer called Andrew Salkey… wrote a YA novel called Hurricane before YA was a term. This was inspired by one faintly erotic scene in A Place in the Sun, a scene I could not shake. It was about a girl’s obsession with a long-dead Montgomery Clift. My first short story, in case you are wondering, was not Joycean. Eventually this lead me to more contemporary writers like DeLillo. Whatever formal radicalism I aspire to have came from that book (plus Faulkner and Woolf). My obsession with novel structure was born with Ulysses. My point is that Joyce is a life-long literary love. My third story was a cringy piece about the Irish Troubles called “Ourselves Alone” (Sinn Fein, get it? I know, so bad). I walked the length of the Belltown neighborhood with my notebook, trying for some of that Joycean precision.
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My second short story stole its structure from the Wandering Rocks section in Ulysses, only in my story it was downtown Seattle (my big swerve). It was the book, along with Dubliners, that made me want to be a writer, or at least it made me think about the formal possibilities of fiction. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Ulysses is my favorite novel, first read at age 20. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers
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