[VIDEO] Michelle Huneven on the Lasting Impact of Questionable Decisions in "Off Course"
By Tom LutzMay 12, 2014
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[VIDEO] Michelle Huneven on the Lasting Impact of Questionable Decisions in "Off Course"
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[Note: We've simultaneously published a print review of Michelle Huneven's new book, by Susanna Luthi.]
This interview is part of an ongoing LARB A.V. series from this year's LA Times Festival of Books. Go to the LARB A.V. homepage to see more interviews with Walter Kirn, T.C. Boyle, Daniel Handler, Mona Simpson, Leslie Jamison, Adrian Todd Zuniga and Terry McMillan, and keep checking in for upcoming interviews with Charlie LeDuff, Ben Katchor, and many more.
OFF COURSE, Michelle Huneven's latest novel, follows disillusioned graduate student Cressida Hartley into the Sierra Nevada on a makeshift writers retreat. But Cress spends less time writing and more time "trying on different futures," inhibitions evaporating in the intoxicating mountain air.
This interview is part of an ongoing LARB A.V. series from this year's LA Times Festival of Books. Go to the LARB A.V. homepage to see more interviews with Walter Kirn, T.C. Boyle, Daniel Handler, Mona Simpson, Leslie Jamison, Adrian Todd Zuniga and Terry McMillan, and keep checking in for upcoming interviews with Charlie LeDuff, Ben Katchor, and many more.
OFF COURSE, Michelle Huneven's latest novel, follows disillusioned graduate student Cressida Hartley into the Sierra Nevada on a makeshift writers retreat. But Cress spends less time writing and more time "trying on different futures," inhibitions evaporating in the intoxicating mountain air.
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