Episode 51 - David Gates: Part 2

In the (summer delayed) second part of our chat with David Gates, we go on (we can't go) with the influence of Samuel Beckett and Jane Austen.

• 'What I learned from Austen is that every character in a work thinks he or she is the protagonist'
• fiction and the drama of conflicting visions
• Gates, comedy and social combat in Emma
  
• closed circuit minds and Gates' characters
• 'I'm 69. I have calmed down, somewhat. It is not the buzzing anxiety of being in my 20s'
• 'There is a way in which you always write like yourself'
  
• 'There is a lot of sameness there' - Gates' literary riffs
• Hitchcock, Rebecca, Psycho and Gates' obsession movie trivia
• literary progression or repetition - Gates v Joyce and the Beatles
  
• Back to Beckett - from prose to plays
• 'I don't know how to say it without sounding pretentious'
• Target or Tar-jay - jokes and time