An Interview with James T. Farrell
1976; Duke University Press; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/441036
ISSN2325-8101
AutoresDennis O. Flynn, Jack Salzman, James T. Farrell,
Tópico(s)American and British Literature Analysis
ResumoQ. When we first met in 1965, when you were living at the Beaux Arts Hotel, you were angrier; now you seem to have mellowed. F. It's not that I've mellowed. Then I was fighting for my existence as a writer. I'd gotten an awful screwing. I was sore for definite, concrete reasons. It wasn't the critics. That wasn't the point. It was the publishers who wouldn't publish me, wouldn't bring my books out. They wouldn't read my manuscripts. I was excluded from making a living at my profession. The publishers think that Studs Lonigan outsold my other books, which isn't precisely true. It only did when it was given a clear field and the others were not allowed to be sold because they were let go out of print. The first bestseller I had was actually A World I Never Made. That book created the greatest sensation and shock of all my early books. It even caused a big censorship trial. But it was let go out of print with the others. Gas-House McGinty has sold over a million copies, but they won't bring it out again. Q. Are you ever sorry that you wrote Studs, since you've come to be so identified with it? Or are you still fond of the book? F. No, of course I'm not sorry. And, anyway, I don't have preferences among my books. I've written too many books to have preferences. I'm interested in the book I'm writing and in the book I haven't written. But any number of people prefer other books of mine to Studs. Many people have felt that Danny O'Neill is my best character. And many people have praised
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