Totem Figures - WP Kinsella
Audio Interview with WP Kinsella
WP Kinsella is one of Canada’s foremost writers. He’s written twenty-four books (novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction). His novel Shoeless Joe was made into the film Field of Dreams. In his interview, Kinsella talks about Ray Bradbury, WD Valgardson, Richard Brautigan, the play Right You Are (If You Think So) by Luigi Pirandello, and the films of Robert Altman.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Ray Bradbury is still writing stories, plays, essays, signing autographs and giving talks.
Go to Ray Bradbury’s website
Watch this montage of scenes from Robert Altman’s film Nashville,
featuring Gwen Welles as Sueleen Gay
This is a short film involving biographical information on Luigi Pirandello and excerpts from some of his works
Here are a few representative Kinsella book titles:
His novel Shoeless Joe began as a short story in the collection Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa. Other baseball works include The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, The Thrill of the Grass, Magic Time and The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt.
Kinsella’s Silas stories are told from the point of view of his fictional creation Silas Ermineskin of the Hobbema Reserve in Alberta. The first collection is Dance Me Outside. Others include Scars, Born Indian and The Fencepost Chronicles. The story Conflicting Statements, mentioned in the interview as being inspired by Rashomon and Right You Are (If You Think So) is in Brother Frank’s Gospel Hour.
The story collection The Alligator Report was written in Richard Brautigan’s style and includes an introduction by Kinsella about his love of Brautigan’s writing.
Books, movies and plays Kinsella talks about in the interview:
Ray Bradbury - The Golden Apples of the Sun, The Illustrated Man
WD Valgardson - God Is Not a Fish Inspector, Bloodflowers
Richard Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar, A Confederate General from Big Sur
Luigi Pirandello - Right You Are (If You Think So)
Robert Altman - Nashville, 3 Women, Short Cuts
Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
Sharon Riis - The True Story of Ida Johnson
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
