As the Washington Post writes:
"He said he resolved to become a writer in fourth grade, after a teacher pinned a poem he had written on the classroom bulletin board.
'I'd like to be remembered as a really honest, minor writer of the 20th century,' he once said."
He was never minor in my mind. I met Busch briefly during a creative writing seminar with Nicholas DelBanco in college. We spent most of the day exploring The Night Inspector (my favorite Busch novel, followed closely by Girls). Over and over, he told us to keep reading books if we ever wanted to be writers.I'll keep reading, and I'll never forget the image of that little kid staring at a bulletin board--dreaming about writing.
Thanks for coming by storycasting.
Identitytheory.com's Robert Birnbaum interviews are worth reading. Check out Richard Russo's interviews with Birnbaum.
Scott
Posted by: Scott Smith | March 2, 2006 11:16 AM | Permalink to Comment