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Interview:
Author Discui
By CHRIS HANDAL in Columbia last Friday fc
Book cntic the taping at the ETV studi
and a reading at Bel
Studio D in the S.C. ETV Auditorium as part of ih
building. Author John Ir- USC Writers' Series.
ving's hands and feet fidget. His reading. on campi
Irving is dressed in khaki attracted an overflow crow<
slacks, a biege shirt, a tan with extra chairs placed i
jacket and blue running the aisles and people sittin
shoes. USC's writer-in- on the floor around the stag
residence, William Price Irving is a success no\
Fox, sits beside him; before critically and commerciall
them, seated on cushions, Both Garp and The Hot
are 18questioners. New Hampshire were so
The director gives the for the movies and tl
signal and the red light on filming of Garp has bet
one of the three cameras completed with Rob
blinks on. Irving stops Williams as the tit
fidgeting. The first question character.
he is asked is how he became The author has not alwa;
a writer. been this successful. H
"I think I started writing first three novels, whi
the way most writers started receiving critical prai:
? by reading. I'm sorry from such publications ?
"I think I started writing the
way most writers started ? by
reading. I'm sorry most young
writers don't do that."
? John Irving
most young writers don't do The New York Times Bo.
that. Reading is important. I Review and New Yorker, d
was not a good student but I not sell well.
liked to read novels. "I thought The Watt
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twenties. I began as most and it was critically, whi
fiction writers do by writing surprised me ? but it wasi
short stories because I could a popular success. I knev
never imagine anything that could never write anythi
long (a novel). But I never as funny or with a happ
really wanted to write short ending. I thought, 'well,
stories. I wanted to get to this doesn't gather me
something larger." audience I'll have only
Irving, 40, author of the small critical audience,'
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According to Garp, received Esquire printed it as chapter
? a front page review in The one, unedited for space or for
ok New York Times Book any other reason. When
lid Review along with an in- Esquire edited it, Irving
terview. Critical acclaim withdrew the manuscript
>r- flourished and popular and gave it to Rolling Stone.
nd acclaim followed. People Chapter one was published
? wore "I BELIEVE IN unedited.
ch GARP" t-shirts. ' "It's nice when a
n't The financial freedom that magazine needs you more
v I came with Garp allowed than you need it," he com
ng Irving to exact revenge on mented.
ier Esquire magazine. "I Family plays an important
if believe in revenge, part in Irving's novels,
an Revenge...is just a form of "Well, family has been ayd
a justice," he said. continues to be important in
According to Irving, he my own life. I came from a
allowed Esquire to publish family with brothers and
lis chapter one of The Hotel sisters and I have a family. I
rid New Hampshire but only if see AUTHOR, page U
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