Conversations with Andre Dubus

Contents

vii Contents Introduction ix Chronology xix Former Resident Is Writer and Teacher in Massachusetts 3 Corinne Peace / 1970 Conversation with Andre Dubus 6 Christopher Caldwell and Adam Cherson / 1982 A Conversation with Andre Dubus 12 Dev Hathaway / 1983 Andre Dubus Interview with Kay Bonetti 32 Kay Bonetti / 1984 A Redneck Intellectual at Home in New England 59 Mimi Read / 1984 Interview with Andre Dubus 63 Robert Dahlin / 1984 The Outrageous Andre Dubus 69 Jesse Kornbluth / 1985 Our Dinners with Andre 76 Amy Schildhouse / 1986 Interview with Andre Dubus 89 Patrick Samway, S.J. / 1986 viii contents Accident Robbed Author of Desire to Write 103 Stacey A. Chase / 1986 An Interview with Andre Dubus 107 Stacey A. Chase / 1989 Short-Story Writer’s Words Flow on the Page—and Off 117 Regina Hackett / 1990 Andre Dubus’s Knuckler Keeps Him in the Game 120 Tim McCarthy / 1990 Profile in Courage 130 Susan Larson / 1991 Andre Dubus 133 Eleanor Wachtel / 1991 “Into the Melody”: A Conversation with Andre Dubus 144 Olivia Carr Edenfield / 1993 A Conversation with Andre Dubus 192 Lori Ambacher / 1993 An Interview with Andre Dubus 208 John Smolens / 1994 Interview with Andre Dubus 218 Tom Grimes / 1997 Interview 230 Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais / 1998 Interview with Andre Dubus 247 Greg Garrett / 1999 Appendix: List of Additional Interviews 249 Index 251 ...