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The Paris Review, to novelists and poets, The Art of Fiction
A durable Art of Fiction question asked through named literary influences and artistic models.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Rob McGibbon, The Definite Article, Rob McGibbon, 27 August 2011 source ↗
They were the great architects who have gone before. So they were architects like Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright. Of course, they were alive at the time that I was studying. But there were also, for me, not just buildings.
I did think about Woody Allen’s movies with Frances Ha because Woody Allen’s movies were also in black and white and very contemporary. Manhattan and Stardust Memories are not period pictures. Particularly in Manhattan you have the grandeur of the black and white and the Gershwin music sort of playing up against a more intimate storyline in which, when you break it down, is really just people sleeping with each other and trying to figure out their lives. But something about the filmmaking and the approach to it makes it feel almost epic. And, ultimately, the concerns of those people are epic. That movie is a masterpiece.
Truffaut, Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, they were the great directors of the Nouvelle Vague. They found the freedom to make exactly the films they wanted. Chabrol was important because he was able to make very strong portraits of women and very complex portraits of women. He was very clever and he had a lot of joy and pleasure. He didn’t have some big theories about his work, he just enjoyed making films. I try to work like that.
The music of the “I Have a Dream” speech is a replication of the music which comes out of the mouths of the African American preacher. Preacher, singer, blues singer, jazz singer, rap person, it is so catching, so hypnotic, so wonderful that, as a poet, I continue to try to catch it, to catch the music.
you have no idea where your power, if you have any power, comes from and then, when it vanishes, you have no idea why it’s vanished.
I was jealous as hell.
All good dramatists are scared of the audience.
I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.
As an adolescent, I read Raymond Williams, George Orwell and Simone de Beauvoir – a crash course in human decency.
When I’m ready I’ll transfer what I have to the computer and rewrite.
Han Kang, Ernest J. Gaines, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, Cheryl Strayed, Adam Gopnik, Lynn Nottage
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