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? -W m WMIJ tii>| Ail William Pric< for painting By Cecile S. Holmes nnftpm^H af cles, a Coli Freewheeling humor and terse many years language comprise the best He said his elements of William Price Fox's received in writing. Current writer-in- foreign citie rncof T TC/^ XT* ? --~ *1 *A 4 i voiuvuvc ai uov/, r ua s auiiuy 10 some South' capture the colorful side of the they call him South has helped make him a 4<I get a lot o popular author. night. Peopl Two of his novels, "Moonshine which street Light, Moonshine Bright" and on in one of r "Ruby Red," were well-received up to ask ab all over the United States. "I never Fox is a t r.. 1 -* ? * * u y iu uc 1 luiny uccause n wouia gel writer. He ta> grotesque. I guess I have a pretty years at the funny outlook on everything I see," Iowa City. Fox said. Workshop, \ His books, short stories and poets and fo articles confirm this. In "Ruby the staff of it Red," the local bootlegger. Spider program. Fo: Hornsby, and his girlfriend Ruby hard to get come to life with the real flavor of such as Ten uoiumoia and Nashville. Flannery 0 His two novels about the South from it. offer different views of it. "I like to tc "Moonshine" was his first novel, takes a lot out Fox said. He feels he was more put into wri naive then than when he wrote require a "Ruby Red." "In Moonshine the Speaking to narrator's point of view is close to "You gotta v the kids (the main characters), bullshit. You Ruby is more advanced, so the 85 per cent tl narrator is more mature, more them to wril sexual," Fox said. come these f T7* - - a * ' ' * r ux is leacning tngnsn 435 Fox tries tc during the second session of write with th summer school. He teaches with a detail and soi looseness and directness, drawing get them to upon his experiences from writing sounds, diff fiction, articles and screenplays, speech pattei "I am basically a professional individually.' writer," he said on the first day of In marketi class. students the> Fox eazes dirpotlv at his listp?rmr . - C J ? Liuu&o gwuig < when answering a serious got to do, in question, but his blue-gray eyes way,"hesaic will dart around the room when he editors like \ tells a story about himself. He said Fox said sheepishly to the class, "I ride student find 1 along the road and tell myself but is very he jokes, make-up stories about the a student's w signs. Trapped audience." it's bad." Sometimes, Fox said, he can use After a v? these incidents as thp hasis fnr a evw ? 1 UA ^/I C1CI 3 II story. can write, yoi Fox said his characters are He said he v composites of people, a com- but doesn't ( bination of imagination and because "yo reality. Spider in "Ruby Red" is specifics." NOV/OPEN! (\tw Ti *<;( FREE 16oz.COKI /WITH EVERY SANDWI* PURCHASE. OFFER GOODTHURSDAY. Z' JULY 22 THRU AUG. 2 ^ BRING THISAD IN , FOR A STUDENT FREEI s OF COLU\f6 <<< Phone 771-4098 ^ 629 Main S*. ^ Pnot? in owdfrs fob pick up e Fox has fl southern li ter one of Fox's un- Since he knows n imbia bootlegger of editors of leading ma ago. tries to refer his stu books have been well ones looking for their 1 London and most whether it is fiction c s. His work inspires "I can pretty well easterners so much there is talent. I try to i up to argue about it. student and encourai f calls from drunks at direction it is stronges e make bets about Fox concentrates j something happened character, not plot in 1 ny books and call me talent for descript out 11. i love mat." illustrated through eacher as well as a like, "He always woi ught off and on for six overall pants and a bl University of Iowa at buck brogan shoes, a The Iowa Writer's yellow wide-brimmec le said, keeps four and those fancy louc ur fiction writers on suspenders with brc .s two-years master's latches and slides." x said the program is Though he uses his into. Gifted writers for writing material, ^ * " ucs&et; wiuiams ana does not observe peo 'Connor graduated write about them. He never pretends to be ^ch," he said, "but it another professior t of you that you could material. Fox says th ting. Some students writing I read where ? lot of attention." out to be something 1 his class, Fox said, writing changes ar iTite through all Vmir nnntrin^ " O-" ~~~~ J VV11U IV^U. "You gotta w te everyday to over- through ally* luSchhis students to bulUhlt.YoU is same sensitivity to f 1(2 utq vou'fo ind. He said, "I try to mj . ,, i hear the different COtlT tnOT. erent rhythms and Fox commented, "I *ns which people take at all until 30. Up everything I did was f ng articles, Fox tells living " Fox spent ' should keep a lot of bellhop in Miami, the at once. "What you've short story "Room a very commercial Tip." Even thoug I, "is to find out which material from his past vhat." did not draw on his ] he works to help a because it was just " his or her own voice, Fox said he begs >nest and direct about because, "I'm just urr :*?- 1 1 * - - wi iv. 11 u s uau, 1 say petitive. When I was in read some short ? iried writing career, thought I could do t } write fiction. "If you experiences as a base u can write any of it." way he writes is to 4,st writes many articles, people and add and ? ?njoy them as much and then the fiction tal u have to find out takes its own shape. write about stuff that' 1 t tfihwrnuM Vr/ X ! Stereo \ with D< 5 . - j separaie V*' ! the men < from the ' ! noise. E | CH \ \ \ PIONFPP np 1 \ I 197 j WE LISTEI 31E. j OPEN j Mon -Thura. Il l o rn K kj f rl. t Sot. I I to 2 a m. I Sun. 12 to 12 I | ' Mini J ^MaMaawpawapnai the gazines, Fox / -wagJBi ueuu> 10 uie '{ r MKHHE >r nonfiction. I tell where find it in the JhI^H the ||HH MM primarily on Hfl^p lis work. His ion is best BWw re a pair of | Jgi Vcanarf WILLIAM F i straw hat I orange-red But he writes about the South uaicnes, uucause, i kiiow 11 real well. 1 grew up here and I like it. I believe experiences in not being too clear when I write, Fox said he not explaining everything. I write pie and then for an inside Southern point of said he also view." someone of Throuehout his carper Fnv hac ) to find maintained ties with Columbia and at, "In most returned here periodically even a writer sets though he describes himself as a he's not, the loner. He expressed reservations id becomes about rapid expansion in Columbia. With a tinge of regret in his voice as he searched for just what he meant, Fox said, "I think it )Ur (Columbia) has lost it's center. - Main Street used to be it. It's ft* M wAm %m w ?v getting to be such a hard sell place fge DAr with fast food stores and K"1 everything." "Maybe," Fox continued, "we didn't write don't want to face the fact that the until then, whole city may be one big K-mart. or making a Charleston has a center. If you lose time as a it, you lose something intangible. basis for his You aren't really aware of it until 306 Doesn't it's gone." h he uses He said perhaps it is "necessary , Fox said he for growth, but hard to watch. I personal life don't like the whole K-mart attoo close." mosphere of the place." in to write "Doctor Golf," a satire well very com- received in England, is Fox's other New York, I novel. An avid golfer himself, Fox ;tories and said the book was "a fictional hat." Using series of letters and my favorite Fox said the book because it did so badly. It's a art with real wicked satire. Only golfers can add to them follow it." kes over and For Fox, writing everyday is It's hard to very important. He said that after s too close." spending a day fishing or hunting, CI DiveeR*cT-4i4iA cas^^ . \-V \ Y _ ifc fM-!S?{V0 *t{* 0, ,, * * >?? N-WE SERVICE PP? BjB(j ftO PiriMFFn wt>?n you want ftornatMng better V^HHHHH 'RICE FOX he finds it hard to readjust to his writing schedule. Preferring to work at a desk facing a blank wall, Fox said he can write for as long as 20 hours at one time. After writing for many magazines, Fox became a contributing editor for Audience magazine in the earlv iQ7ft'c Tho ^ ?- V U. A lie publication sold only in limited editions for five dollars each, but it's circulation reached 50,000 readers according to Fox. Fox said prominent authors such as John Updike and Jay Maisil wrote for it. Audience won awards for writing and graphics too, but the magazine folded in 1973. Fox said it failed because, "People aren't reading shnrt <:tnripc fVioir'm - w.u. .VU, VMVJ lb W CI lulling d lot of T V." Fox is now writing a short story and several articles. He is using his experiences as a salesman in New York City for the short story. He said, "I write best about what I enjoy doing. I liked selling, Hollywood and bellhopping." The short stories in Fox's collection, "Southern Fried Plus - Six," may be used for television. Fox said the South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV) network is now negotiating in New York with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to produce a pilot with the possibility of a series. An article by Fox will appear soon in Travel and Leisure magazine. He plans to remain at Carolina for at least another year teaching fiction and movie script writing. ForTotal System Efficiency I buv AAntrk ? ? ^ ? V ? %? VI | v V9 PIONEER | components Savings on Systems Largest display in S.C. 1 2714 Devine Street | 771-7340