NBCC/Paris Review “Name that Author” Contest #3

by admin | Nov-12-2008

For the next week or so, Critical Mass will publish excerpts from interviews with former National Book Critics Circle award winners and finalists included in the venerable Paris Review “Writers at Work” series; the third volume has just been published by Picador. The reader who first correctly identifies the author each day will be rewarded with a complete three-volume set of the collected Paris Review interviews. Send your answers to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Please put “Name that Author” in the subject header.

Here is the third installment. Which NBCC award winner/finalist had this to say when questioned by the Paris Review interviewer?

“I had the misguided idea that I wanted to act. The form this took was not acting, however, but reading plays. I remember at one point going through everything of Eugene O’Neill’s. I was struck by the sheer theatricality of his plays. I read them all in one summer. I had nosebleeds and for some reason it took all summer to get the appointment to get my nose cauterized. So I just lay still on the porch all day and read Eugene O’Neill. That was all I did. And dab at my face with an ice cube.”

Send your answer to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  and please put “Name that Author” in the subject heading.

Labels: Author Interviews, Industry News