Hailed as a genius and beloved for his generosity, the award-winning novelist has moved from the city he helped the rest of us understand.
with the subject line, “we’re losing you?!?!?!” Such an excess of punctuation is not my style, but I’d just learned that Fountain — a writer who demonstrated not only how acclaimed an author from Dallas could be, but also how good — was moving. I was mistaken on the timing, though. Dallas had already lost him. He emailed the following day.He and his wife, Sharon, whom he calls Sharie, shipped off in early December for North Carolina, his home state.
It took a while to realize this white-knuckled despair was not a thing I could outrun. Many years later, I found myself marooned on a second memoir. I had turned in a draft, only to learn I needed a second draft, only to learn I needed a third. When I told Fountain, he just nodded.Ordinary HorrorOver the next decade, Fountain’s star rose, as Searcy slunk into the shadows. “I was writing weird stuff, and it wasn’t going anywhere but the drawer,” he says.
“He was the connective tissue between different generations and scenes,” says Will Evans. I’m sure someone didn’t like him, but I never met that person.“Did they think I was gonna start a riot at Arts & Letters Live?” he says. “Have they seen the audience?”
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