![]() RICK MOODY: He was the publisher of the New York Daily News.īILL GOLDSTEIN: But you referred to being a storyteller. Really I came to want to write because the first thing I loved was books, the texture of them, their physicality, and then also anything that was contained within.īILL GOLDSTEIN: What did your grandfather do? I sort of was a shy kid and a bit of a storyteller and stuff, but So this book reverence thing was really central to the people who raised me up, and that's what I did first. ![]() He had a whole set of firsts of FaulknerĪnd Salinger and all that kind of stuff. you know, also I had a grandfather who was in the newspaper business, and he used to get first editions all the time. So that kind of object fetishism of book as a sacred object runs in my family, and was imparted to Both my parents are pretty much people who always have a novel they're reading and so forth. You know, before I ever wrote, I was a voracious reader, and that's really something that my family has been involved that's sort of the origin of my job, really, is reading. ILL GOLDSTEIN: And so I was wondering whether you could just talk about your relationship with books and your love of books. ![]()
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