Brian Evenson is the author of some 200 works of fiction and
translation, or so it seems. His prolific output is matched only by the
extraordinary quality and variety of his work and his well-known
generosity as a teacher and literary champion. He is a great writer and
indispensable. When I learned that Brian had written a book about Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,
I knew I had to read it at once and then talk to him about it. As such,
I interviewed Brian via email over the course of this past holiday
season, one question at a time. – RL
Robert Lopez: How
did this book come about exactly? I very much enjoy the commingling of
the personal narrative with the Carver material, which of course, is
what the book and the series is about. Did all of this come together for
you when you started putting this work together, the personal
narrative/memoir elements with the examination of Carver’s fiction?
Brian Evenson: I’d done a lot of work on Carver and
the way he was edited by Gordon Lish in the 1990s, but that was pretty
strictly academic, and for various reasons I never finished it and
published it. But I always thought I’d go back to that material. I knew
about the Bookmarked series because I’d heard Aaron Burch read from his
forthcoming book on Stephen King’s The Body when we were at a
festival together. I was pretty intrigued by the way his project was
such a personal approach to a novella that had meant a lot to him. A few
months after that, Robert Lasner wrote to me out of the blue and asked
me if I’d be interested in writing a book for the Bookmarked series. ... [mehr] http://thefanzine.com/interview-with-brian-evenson-on-raymond-carvers-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love/
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