Ask the Author: Brian Prousky
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Brian Prousky
Thanks so much Richard. I would read Auden Triller (Is A Killer) first. I poured everything I love and hate into the main character and the world around him. Can’t wait to hear what you think.
Brian Prousky
Who knows? At some point, while my pen was hovering over my notebook, it took shape in my mind.
Brian Prousky
Saul Bellow. William Faulkner. Virginia Woolf. Bob Dylan. Joni Mitchell.
Brian Prousky
A novel. About a WWII veteran writing a memoire. And about a woman, hired to transcribe the memoire, who insinuates herself into it until she becomes one of the main characters. Her deeper, decades old, connection to the veteran is gradually revealed to him and the reader.
Brian Prousky
Throw out your first novel. Or, at least rewrite it entirely. It's probably not as good as you think it is. Also, write something every day.
Brian Prousky
Grabbing for and actually getting hold of a perfect sentence.
Brian Prousky
Just keep writing. Even if it's crap and you throw it out. Just keep writing. Just keep writing. Just keep writing.
Brian Prousky
For thirty years, I wrote poems between meetings at work. If there's a sadder line written by a writer, I'd like to read it.
Brian Prousky
I would like to float on the sentences in any of Saul Bellow's books. In Virginia Woolf's books too.
Brian Prousky
Did I throw out a television converter with a pile of newspapers in 1987? If not, it remains a mystery.
Brian Prousky
Reading every word I haven't already read by Roberto Bolano.
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