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I feel like I don’t understand an essay until I’ve ready it a few times.
Steve Moore, Ep. 378
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By Brendan O’MearaLook who came back! It’s Steven Moore! He’s the author of The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country (UNC Press). Growing up in Iowa and spending the last several years on the west coast — many in Oregon — Steven toggles between when it meant to grow up in the midwest and the view from afar.
His essays range from riffs on the sitcom “Home Improvement,” Blockbuster Video, Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, and political coverage of a state that had voted for Obama, then flipped, you know, the other way.
Steven also is the author of The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier, which won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Taking big swings in the voice/style
- The essay writer as a good hang
- And voice creep and the writer Steven can’t have in the same room him as he’s writing
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This episode pairs well with:
Carolyn Holbrook
