In this edition of HoCoPoLitSo's "The Writing Life," novelist Madison Smartt Bell speaks with author Mary Gordon, known best for her novels The Company of Women and Final Payments. Gordon addresses the idea that her books are focused on "minor" issues, an idea that she wants to turn on its head, she says. Family happiness isn't minor, she says, though many male writers and critics believe that only topics that are major are violence or unwilling sex. She also reads from and talks about her memoir, The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father, in which she details his extraordinary life. Her writing involves looking at the world closely, she says, but sometimes at an odd perspective, a point about which she is "ferocious." She adds, "I'm always trying to make some sort of balance between clarity of terms and the cruel exclusion that clarity requires."
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Негізгі бет Mary Gordon talks of her novels and family happiness
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