Comments on: An Interview With Novelist Richard Ford http://calitreview.com/54 Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:24:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: paul morgan http://calitreview.com/54/comment-page-1#comment-7464 paul morgan Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:20:09 +0000 http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-novelist-richard-ford/#comment-7464 the shooting scene with twin russian boys offing neighbor and wife puzzled me. what caused that to happen? the shooting scene with twin russian boys offing neighbor and wife puzzled me. what caused that to happen?

]]> By: Joël Neyt http://calitreview.com/54/comment-page-1#comment-6915 Joël Neyt Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:57:07 +0000 http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-novelist-richard-ford/#comment-6915 Thank you, writers, for this interview! It took some time to find this lively interaction between interviewer-writer, reading the three Frank Bascombe books to prepare himself, great for a writer, and the writer Richard Ford. I don't have much room, just a few bookcases, in my suburban house in the city of Ghent (Europe, Belgium, East-Flanders; still no government in Belgium after more than 150 days following the elections; it does not matter because as a reader my life is now for a while governed by the words of a writer). But these three books about Bascombe are on the shelves forever, after reading them. I think Richard Ford is not only a great novelist-story teller about real(ly) sometimes (un)important things but also a great poet (is'nt realtor not implying real(i)t(y)or eventually?) that could arrest you to sitting down and thinking. As a reader now of The Lay of the Land I have been arrested this saturday evening again by this sentence "This near-silent, for-all-the-world unremarkable moment, I knew, was the fabled moment". But dear Americans I "won't blubber on" because I still have a lot to read before I should "Meet my Maker". Sincerely yours, Joël Neyt Thank you, writers, for this interview! It took some time to find this lively interaction between interviewer-writer, reading the three Frank Bascombe books to prepare himself, great for a writer, and the writer Richard Ford.

I don’t have much room, just a few bookcases, in my suburban house in the city of Ghent (Europe, Belgium, East-Flanders; still no government in Belgium after more than 150 days following the elections; it does not matter because as a reader my life is now for a while governed by the words of a writer). But these three books about Bascombe are on the shelves forever, after reading them.

I think Richard Ford is not only a great novelist-story teller about real(ly) sometimes (un)important things but also a great poet (is’nt realtor not implying
real(i)t(y)or eventually?) that could arrest you to sitting down and thinking.

As a reader now of The Lay of the Land I have been arrested this saturday evening again by this sentence “This near-silent, for-all-the-world unremarkable moment, I knew, was the fabled moment”.

But dear Americans I “won’t blubber on” because I still have a lot to read before I should “Meet my Maker”.

Sincerely yours,

Joël Neyt

]]> By: Jim Johnston http://calitreview.com/54/comment-page-1#comment-6873 Jim Johnston Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:55:08 +0000 http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-novelist-richard-ford/#comment-6873 I'm a 60 year old dyslexic writer in my second year of the Unversity of Uvic writing program and seven years ago I had only grade four writing and reading skills.I have to write everyday now. I apprentice great writng skills of Mr. Ford. May all sunrises be bright in front of you and shadows of darkness behind you! Sincerely, Jim Johnston. I’m a 60 year old dyslexic writer in my second year of the Unversity of Uvic writing program and seven years ago I had only grade four writing and reading skills.I have to write everyday now. I apprentice great writng skills of Mr. Ford. May all sunrises be bright in front of you and shadows of darkness behind you!

Sincerely,

Jim Johnston.

]]> By: M http://calitreview.com/54/comment-page-1#comment-567 M Mon, 28 May 2007 16:30:40 +0000 http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-novelist-richard-ford/#comment-567 Excellent interview, good thoughtful questions. Thanks. Excellent interview, good thoughtful questions. Thanks.

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