{"id":837,"date":"2011-07-09T02:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2011-07-09T02:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T20:47:56","slug":"an-interview-with-william-gay-a-great-southern-gothic-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/09\/an-interview-with-william-gay-a-great-southern-gothic-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview With William Gay, a Great Southern Gothic Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently turned me on to this link (Thanks, Jess)\u2014an interview with the great Southern Gothic writer William Gay that appears in the <em>Oxford American<\/em>:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/articles\/2011\/jun\/15\/solost-home-william-gay\/<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been a fan of Gay&#8217;s for years, and some of his stories, like &#8220;The Paperhanger,&#8221; are out-and-out classics. He even had the title story of his collection <em>I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down<\/em> (2002) made into a film\u2014which I&#8217;ve yet to watch, for no good reason. (Although I did recently watch <em>Primal<\/em>, a rather ridiculous, so-bad-it&#8217;s-good Australian horror film.) My editor, Greg Michalson, was also his editor. But the real mystery about Gay is his soon-to-be\/never-to-be released novel, <em>The Lost Country<\/em>, which has been scheduled for years now.<br \/>\nMy favorite Wm Gay novel is <em>Provinces of Night<\/em> (2000), which was also made into a film in 2010 titled <em>Bloodworth<\/em>, starring no less than Kris Kristofferson and Val Kilmer. Both of them I&#8217;ll have to watch soon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bloodworth_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-838\" title=\"Bloodworth_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bloodworth_poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently turned me on to this link (Thanks, Jess)\u2014an interview with the great Southern Gothic writer William Gay that appears in the Oxford American: http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/articles\/2011\/jun\/15\/solost-home-william-gay\/ I&#8217;ve been a fan of Gay&#8217;s for years, and some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/09\/an-interview-with-william-gay-a-great-southern-gothic-mystery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksfilm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}