Ask the Author: Michael Barsa
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Michael Barsa
Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge are wonderful novels! I have not read A Little Life, but I'll definitely look it up. I just finished Thin Red Line and an dipping into Paul Auster, whom I've never read before, to see whether I'm interested. I'll let you know!
Michael Barsa
Yes! Thanks so much for your interest in them. Here's the link to the Op-Ed that appeared in the Chicago Tribune, which criticizes President Trump's Executive Order about repealing regulations:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/op...
And here's the Op-Ed that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, about the potential dangers of rolling back auto mileage standards:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/...
I hope you enjoy these! And thanks again for your interest in them.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/op...
And here's the Op-Ed that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, about the potential dangers of rolling back auto mileage standards:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/...
I hope you enjoy these! And thanks again for your interest in them.
Michael Barsa
Ah, what a wonderful question. Thanks so much for asking it. I think a lot about nature, and this becomes reflected in almost everything I write. Even in my novel, The Garden of Blue Roses, I managed to sneak in a fair bit of musing on our relationship to wilderness (the woods) versus cultivation (the garden). While I've also written nonfiction articles--both technical ones in law reviews and more popular ones in newspapers--I haven't yet been tempted to write a nonfiction book on the environment. But if I did write one, I'd model it after two of my favorites: Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and John Fowles' The Tree. They're magnificent works--deeply personal and at the same time touching on universal themes about humility in the face of nature's sublime power and beauty.
Michael Barsa
Thanks so much, Jenn, for your question! I finally did master the American "R." It was sometime in 5th grade, after years of speech therapy, when it finally clicked, and suddenly I no longer sounded like such a foreigner. For a kid who was always trying to fit in, and always conscious of how he didn't, it was quite a profound moment.
Michael Barsa
A sequel to The Garden of Blue Roses. Stay tuned....
Michael Barsa
I don't believe there's any such thing as an aspiring writer. There are writers and non-writers. Why am I being so picky about this? Because my advice is just to write, write, and write some more. You'll produce lots of bad writing, but that's OK. Everybody does. You just need to work through the bad writing to get to the good.
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