Conversations with Tim Gautreaux / edited by L. Lamar Nisly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nisly, L. Lamar, 1968-

Series:

Literary conversations series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gautreaux, Tim--Interviews.

Gautreaux, Tim.

Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.

Authors, American.

Southern States.

Authors, American--Southern States--Interviews.

Fiction--Authorship.

Fiction.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxii, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]

Summary:

Louisiana writer Tim Gautreaux (b. 1947) writes fiction that mixes equal parts dry humor, tall tales, and deep tragedy. His stories and novels of working-class Acadiana portray lives of inimitably poignant love, loss, and longing. The depth and complexity of Gautreaux's writing invite scholarly appraisals as critics mine the richness of his moral vision. These interviews reveal the intensity of his sense of place, his deep connection to the mechanical and working world, his commitment to the craft of writing, and his Catholic view that has been shaped by Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy.

Conversations with Tim Gautreaux collects interviews from 1993 to 2009 with the author of The Missing, The Clearing, Welding with Children, and many other vital works of fiction. Readers who have been engaged with the themes in his stories and novels will find themselves equally taken with the kind and thoughtful voice they discover in interviews. Book jacket.

Contents:

He's got the write stuff / Sheila Stroup

Pelican briefs / Susan Larson

A conversation with Tim Gautreaux / Katie Bolick and David Watta

Best American short stories 1997 / Elizabeth Arnold

Novel approach : Tim Gautreaux takes "The next step" / Christina Masciere

The writer next door / Susan Larson

An interview with Tim Gautreaux / Christopher Joyal

Interview with Tim Gautreaux / Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais

A postmodern Southern moralist and storyteller : Tim Gautreaux / Julie Kane

Tim Gautreaux / Pam Kingsbury

Tim Gautreaux : author of The clearing talks with Robert Birnbaum / Robert Birnbaum

Tim Gautreaux : a conversation with Darlene Meyering / Darlene Meyering

Tim Gautreaux / Christopher Scanlan

An interview with Tim Gautreaux / Maria Hebert-Leiter

A Catholic who happens to write : an interview with Tim Gautreaux / L. Lamar Nisly

An interview with Tim Gautreaux : "cartographer of Louisiana back roads" / Margaret D. Bauer

A conversation with Tim Gautreaux / Dayne Sherman

Tim Gautreaux's The missing / Tom Ashbrook.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781617036071

1617036072

OCLC:

774696629