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).
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- 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.
