Episode 52 - David Gates: Part 3

Part 3 of David Gates' conversation with This Writing Life starts with a discussion of 'story' - how Gates writes them and how people tell them (and how Gates writes about people telling them).

•  is Gates as self-destructive as his characters?
  
• 'I am now enacting a wild moment'
• Virginia Woolf's sly sense of humour
• Gates other literary obsessions: Barthelme, Wodehouse, Rex Stout (yes, Rex Stout)
• first person, third person - Gates and narrative
• 'Banishment': writing from a woman's point of view
• Gates' (former) shrink on self-portraits in his work
• 'I like existence. I don't really know what the alternative is'
• weather, winter and writing

Part 4 (of 5) to follow.