July 20th, 2010 / 3:42 pm
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Blake Butler
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Gordon Lish Interview @ BOMB + Harry Crews
1. Fantastic new interview with Gordon Lish at BOMBBLOG, on the occasion of his revision of his work for the Collected publication.
GL: The less I have in mind, the more my mind can be counted upon. Unhappily, for me, mind is scarcely the whole of what applies. Call it the art of the bricoleur—making do with less. Making much out of little, a mountain out of a molehill.
2. Edited manuscript, plus photo and brief audio excerpt of Harry Crews teaching in Florida in 1980, at This Long Century.
Tags: bombblog, gordon lish, Harry Crews
What a waste of an interview with Lish! Way to throw up a bunch of lobs! What is this shit? Tennis camp?
And yes I’m jealous my interview with him got bagged.
Look at that forehand smash
its all just words
shit, why is everyone so damn serious in this picture?
i love those photographs of gordon in shadow standing in front of whatever that backdrop is
That’s a macroscript page, notlargerthanlifesize–Walser and Lish having more in company than either will ever know–of “July the Fifteenth, 1988” from ZIMZUM:
CORRECTION:
You know what I would like? I would like to see for someone to come and tell me that I did not have a perfect right to be so nervous and scared. Because any idiot should realize I had a perfect right to be. Even a moron should be able to realize I had a perfect right to be. Listen, no one is asking you to be a genius, you know. No one is sitting here making the statement to you that you are expected to be a genius, you know. Have I been sitting asking yof you anything other than that you just sit and listen? Is fair fair, or is fair fair?
What the hell kind of writing class is that? Enrollment capped at 200?
What a waste of an interview with Lish! Way to throw up a bunch of lobs! What is this shit? Tennis camp?
And yes I’m jealous my interview with him got bagged.
Look at that forehand smash
its all just words
shit, why is everyone so damn serious in this picture?
i love those photographs of gordon in shadow standing in front of whatever that backdrop is
That’s a macroscript page, notlargerthanlifesize–Walser and Lish having more in company than either will ever know–of “July the Fifteenth, 1988” from ZIMZUM:
CORRECTION:
You know what I would like? I would like to see for someone to come and tell me that I did not have a perfect right to be so nervous and scared. Because any idiot should realize I had a perfect right to be. Even a moron should be able to realize I had a perfect right to be. Listen, no one is asking you to be a genius, you know. No one is sitting here making the statement to you that you are expected to be a genius, you know. Have I been sitting asking yof you anything other than that you just sit and listen? Is fair fair, or is fair fair?
What the hell kind of writing class is that? Enrollment capped at 200?
Talked to Harry Crews on the phone earlier this year. One of the goddamn highlights of my life, for sure. The man is a jewel that has been fashioned from hog bones, CASE knives, snake skin, and then spit-shined with blood and beer.
Talked to Harry Crews on the phone earlier this year. One of the goddamn highlights of my life, for sure. The man is a jewel that has been fashioned from hog bones, CASE knives, snake skin, and then spit-shined with blood and beer.