Conversations with Tim Gautreaux

Contents

v Contents Introduction vii Chronology xxi He’s Got the Write Stuff 3 Sheila Stroup / 1993 Pelican Briefs 5 Susan Larson / 1996 A Conversation with Tim Gautreaux 8 Katie Bolick and David Watta / 1997 Best American Short Stories 1997 13 Elizabeth Arnold / 1997 Novel Approach: Tim Gautreaux Takes “The Next Step” 17 Christina Masciere / 1998 The Writer Next Door 22 Susan Larson / 1998 An Interview with Tim Gautreaux 25 Christopher Joyal / 1998 Interview with Tim Gautreaux 35 Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais / 1998 A Postmodern Southern Moralist and Storyteller: Tim Gautreaux 53 Julie Kane / 2001 vi CONTENTS Tim Gautreaux 69 Pam Kingsbury / 2003 Tim Gautreaux: Author of The Clearing Talks with Robert Birnbaum 73 Robert Birnbaum / 2003 Tim Gautreaux: A Conversation with Darlene Meyering 87 Darlene Meyering / 2004 Tim Gautreaux 107 Christopher Scanlan / 2004 An Interview with Tim Gautreaux 110 Maria Hebert-Leiter / 2004 A Catholic Who Happens to Write: An Interview with Tim Gautreaux 120 L. Lamar Nisly / 2005 An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: “Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads” 128 Margaret D. Bauer / 2008 A Conversation with Tim Gautreaux 152 Dayne Sherman / 2009 Tim Gautreaux’s The Missing 164 Tom Ashbrook / 2009 Index 183 ...