http://www.aadl.org/node/40341
I hate when I make a dumb mistake. (Well, don't we all?) This is a link to an interview I did when I was in Ann Arbor three weeks ago, and it's actually a fun interview because she went out of her way to ask not-the-usual questions. But just for the record: I referred to a poem quoted in the book A Summer to Die as being by Housman; and it's not..it's by Gerard Manley Hopkins. And I KNEW that, which is why I am irritated with myself.
A.E. Housman:
Gerard Manley Hopkins:
They don't even look alike!
I can top that: I was interviewed about The Fences Between Us, set in WWII, and I said that the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor on December 6.
Oy.
Posted by: Kirby Larson | April 20, 2011 at 08:48 PM
I imagine the pressure of having to come up with unrehearsed answers on the spot can challenge the best of minds.
BTW.. I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC this week and saw Number The Stars in their gift shop shelves. I noticed that all the young people (hundreds it seemed) who saw it had the same reaction "Awww.. Number the Stars" with a sigh of affectionate recognition.
Cheers!
Posted by: ojimenez | April 22, 2011 at 05:35 AM