we’re following up last week’s episode on teenager by bud smith by talking to bud about his work (and his friendship with bobby). we talk about new jersey, bud rejecting bobby’s criticisms of a previous draft of teenager, and bud’s process of re-writing (and re-typing) his novel. bud shares thoughts on writing to keep yourself interested (and surprised), lessons learned from teaching writing, and working with his wife rae buleri on the novel’s art. we all struggle to pronounce a word. bud shares picks for his mini-module:
don quixote by miguel de cervantes saavedra
norwood by charles portis
lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry
short letter, long farewell by peter handke
fair play by tove jansson
to the lighthouse by virginia woolf