T.C. Boyle Finds His Endings (2015)

In our conversation for this series, he analyzed how Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” pulls off an uncanny sleight of hand by bringing the story to a place readers never dreamed it could go. We discussed how Carver opened up Boyle’s stylistic palette, why he never knows the ending of his works until he gets there, and why art can be a comfort in a chaotic world. Boyle’s latest novel, The Harder They Come, was inspired in part by a quote from D. H. Lawrence: “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

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