An Interview with Kyle Minor
, A collection of short fiction which skews the often over-defined genres of Gothic, suburban and confessional literature. With that collection Kyle managed to show, in full-colour panorama, his virtuosic talents. From the beautifully confined and condensed stories such as "The San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl Party," to the controlled, cyclonic pieces like "A Day Meant to Do Less" -- there is a special touch which transcends the taught or the crafted, and comes from what Edward Falco described as Kyles "crucial compassion." "The Truth and All Its Ugly," a new short story, has recently found its way into a plethora of publications -- including Fifty-Two Stories In your blog posts Nabokov makes an above-average appearance, can you explain your relationship with Nabokovs work?Nabokov is a master of the sinewy sentence, the shady character, the narrative sleight-of-hand. What I admire about his work is how it is so paradoxically wild and extremely controlled at the same time. I also admire his extraordinary intellect. Sometimes, though, there is a coldness to his work that stands in opposition to what I want to do with my own work.
I agree, even Nabokov perceived this as his weakness, his inability to be spontaneous. But there are glimmers, like in his forward to Bend Sinister he said that it was really written for the father and son scenes, which are some of the most humane, tragic scenes he ever wrote. Do you think that it is possible to synthesis that type of writing, or could Nabokov only achieve that sort of pitch because he was a father, a son and had first-hand experience of the sort of tyranny portrayed in the book?
I do think that Nabokov wrote some really beautiful and warm stuff. Speak, Memory . Solzhenitsyn, Kundera, Lydia Davis, Deb Olin Unferth. The list is long.
You once quoted Nabokov saying that "all great novels are fairy tales," and when I read "The Truth and All Its Ugly" the quote kept springing up at me. There does seem to be a thwarted fairy tale at its heart -- what are the fairy tale elements that translate to great novels, stories or poems?
I've been thinking a lot about how the literature I love the most is engaged with the oldest storytelling traditions -- fairy tale, myth, parable, those old structures. I was trained by writers largely beholden to the naturalist or psychological realist tradition, and that's I suppose the tradition I've mostly been writing in. But the writers I love most -- Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Nathan Englander, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (the list is getting too long already) -- have been chasing a freedom that can't be contained by boxes like "naturalism.
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So I think that he achieved that kind of synthesis sometimes. You also see it in a lot of David Foster Wallace's better stuff -- "Good Old Neon," "Octet," "Adult World." Stephen Dixon's "The Apology," Interstate, End of I. Roth's American Pastoral.
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This excellent old time radio program relates how Foster's music captured the heart and ideals of pre-Civil War America, and his influence on our culture today. It is both a songbook of Foster's classic tunes, as well as a mini-biography of his tragic life. Included are several wonderful Foster compositions, including "Beautiful Dreamer" and "I Dream of Jeannie". Highly recommended!
Next, the story behind Stephen Foster's classic song, "My Old Kentucky Home". We especially enjoyed this program, as we live less than an hour from the real "My Old Kentucky Home" and have visited there many times. It is a magical place. We hope you'll enjoy this touching, bittersweet story of the Old South too.
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