And I think I went to twelve schools before I got out of high school. I think this is the twenty-fifth place where I’m living. So when I was about eight we moved to New England. In 1966 or ‘67, we moved to New Hampshire. And then he got a teaching job after he got that degree. So some of my earliest memories are of Iowa City, where my father was a grad student. And then he went to the Iowa Writers Workshop. Then my father’s father died, after my dad was in the Marines for five and a half years. We went from Camp Pendleton where my brother and I were born, to Whidbey Island, Washington State, where my little sister was born. Can you tell us a little about that?ĭubus: I was born in Southern California, where my dad was a Marine at Camp Pendleton. We understand that when you were young you moved around a lot. And we appreciate that your work is so grounded in place.Ĭagibi: In Gone So Long, place is almost in every paragraph. We’re drawn to stories where place matters. I love cagibis in life.Ĭagibi: We are a journal of prose and poetry, and also a literary space offering retreats to writers. Or a place in the attic where you store stuff.Īndre Dubus III: So it can be a container for whatever you need to contain.Ĭagibi: Yes, it can be used to store old stuff you don’t really need all the time but you may eventually.ĭubus: I love this word. Or, it can be a shed where you put your tools. It can be a space under the staircase used for a closet, or you can turn that space into a writing spot if you put a little desk. It’s a space that can be used for different things. Update 2019-11: Andre Dubus III is a guest judge in the Macaron Prize 2020.Ĭagibi: Let’s start with this word, cagibi. His other books include the memoir Townie, the novella collection Dirty Love, the novel The Garden of Last Days, and others. He lives with his family north of Boston. His novel House of Sand and Fog was a number one New York Times best seller, a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, and an Oprah’s Book Club Selection it was adapted into an Academy-Award nominated motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly. With the release of Gone So Long, Andre Dubus III is the author of seven books, including three New York Times best sellers. Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become, and probes the limits of recovery and absolution.ĭubus grew up in small Massachusetts towns on the Merrimack River, after his family moved among places such as California, Washington, and Iowa his father was in the military, a writer, and teacher. The description is part of Susan’s new writing project, which brings her into her traumatic past even as her present threatens her with further upheaval. His new novel Gone So Long opens with a description of Daniel Ahearn, as written by his middle-aged daughter Susan, a writer struggling to find her true story and a woman struggling to find stability in her life. We spoke about Gone So Long, and the significance of places and spaces, fatherhood, blind rage, the pleasures of building a house, and more. Cagibi editors had the pleasure of a conversation with him in the cozy, fire lit lobby of the Maritime Hotel. On October 2, Andre Dubus III came to New York City to celebrate the release of Gone So Long, his first novel in a decade.
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