8Feb
The final part of my conversation with Tom Drury at one of London's finest independent bookstores, Bookseller Crow. We start with the Q&A is included, alongside many and erroneous references to Tolstoy.
Bookseller Crow's website is: here.
2Feb
Part two of my live conversation with Tom Drury at Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace.
20Jan
A special episode in which I talk to Tom Drury, my favourite author of 2015, and possibly 2016 too, live in front of a lovely audience at the lovely Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace, one of the finest bookstores I know. Keep reading →
5Aug
In the third part of my conversation with Tom Drury, we rewind to his days studying creative writing with Robert Coover, 'a great teacher'.
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1Aug
A small taster for part three of my chat with Tom Drury.
We talk MP3s, social networking, email, and The New Luddites from the third Grouse County novel, Pacific.
1Aug
In the second part of my interview with Tom Drury, one of America's finest living novelists, we begin by discussing the railroad and its part in linking places like Grouse County to the outside world.
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27Jul
In this stopgap between podcasts, Tom Drury discusses the use of light in his debut novel, The End of Vandalism.
'I love that there would be some incidental lighting in the dark, like the dryer, you know?'
Hear Antonya Nelson read Tom Drury's 'Accident at the Sugar Beet', which became an episode in The End of Vandalism, for the New Yorker here.
17Jul
Tom Drury is the author of six astounding novels. Three - his masterpiece The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams and Pacific - are set in the same fictional Grouse County area of Iowa - Drury's home-state.
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15Jul
In the next episode of This Writing Life, James Kidd talks to the extraordinary American novelist Tom Drury, author of The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, Pacific and The Driftless Area, among others.
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