Robert Stone
Author
Robert Stone is an American novelist and the National Book Award-winning author of "Dog Soldiers" (1974). His other novels include "A Flag for Sunrise" (PEN/Faulkner Award, 1981), "Children of Light" (1986), and "The Bay of Souls" (2003). He also published a memoir, "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties," in 2007. His newest book, the short story collection "Fun With Problems," will be released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in January 2010.
Kerouac was a “half-assed” writer, says Robert Stone, who traveled with the Beats. Yet the “divinity” he heralded is as much a wakeup call as ever.
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The National Book Award-winning author picks up the pen in order to locate himself. It’s the same reason, he says, that smart people must continue to read.
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Award-winning novelist Robert Stone explains why he’s made a late turn toward short stories, and why his new book (“Fun With Problems”) contains his first experiment with the first person.
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As overly “creative” memoirists continue to generate scandal, Robert Stone (“Prime Green”) isn’t surprised: writing about yourself, he says, is much like creating any other fictional character.
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What can addiction teach us? Can its complexities ever be honestly represented in fiction? And is writing itself a kind of drug?
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The “Dog Soldiers” author confesses to missing the psychedelic experience of the ‘60s, which was “strange and very frightening” but also yielded some deeper truths about reality.
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Robert Stone’s experience as a war correspondent is forever linked in his mind with a haunting passage from “King Lear.”
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As a boy, Robert Stone loved tales of “romantic adventure.” In the Navy he got to experience one himself, as a member of the Antarctic expedition “Operation Deep Freeze III.”
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