An interview with George Dawes Green, whose new novel, Ravens, will be published by Grand Central on July 15.You tell them, George.
PW: It’s been 14 years since your last novel; what took
you so long?!
GDG: I got distracted. I went diving in the Galapagos Islands and spotted a frail momentary seahorse; I read Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees; Larry Gwynn bluffed me off a full house with a jack-high (in Wanda’s house, under live oaks, in the presence of witnesses); I founded The Moth; I wrote the scripts for a few movies; a bruja gave me the evil eye in Santiago Atitlan and I was nearly murdered a few hours later; Skye Sullivan and I, on the coldest night of the year, squeezed into Romulus’s coat together, and shuffled home through the dark streets of Manhattan.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Now, That’s an Excuse I Can Understand
As someone who has been working on a book of his own for a long time, I thought this excerpt from a recent Publishers Weekly interview said it all:
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The Galapagos Islands are the most incredible living museum of evolutionary changes, with a huge variety of exotic species (birds, land animals, plants) and landscapes not seen anywhere else.
Just be sure to stay away from the Evil Eye!
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