http://artandseek.net/2009/12/23/chatting-with-larry/ Arts, Culture, Music for North Texas Tue, 22 May 2012 05:21:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://artandseek.net/2009/12/23/chatting-with-larry/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Bill Marvel Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:04:37 +0000 http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=13415#comment-667 My tip for future interviewers would be, Find someone else to interview. Authors are not movie stars or overpaid athletes. They don't owe the public a Colgate smile and a heart full of bull. Some of them are gracious in front of microphone, camera or notebook. Others are not. Many of them just want to be left alone to write. Or not write, as the case may be. None of them are under any obligation to make our job as journalists easy. Was B. Traven any less a writer because he successfully dodged the press? My tip for future interviewers would be, Find someone else to interview. Authors are not movie stars or overpaid athletes. They don’t owe the public a Colgate smile and a heart full of bull. Some of them are gracious in front of microphone, camera or notebook. Others are not. Many of them just want to be left alone to write. Or not write, as the case may be. None of them are under any obligation to make our job as journalists easy. Was B. Traven any less a writer because he successfully dodged the press?

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