Elizabeth Gonzalez James on 'The Bullet Swallower,' Future of the Western
The book's author, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, discusses the troubled genre's inclusive new frontier.
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The book's author, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, discusses the troubled genre's inclusive new frontier.
The book's author, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, discusses the troubled genre's inclusive new frontier.
A wave of novels is drawing from wellsprings of race, class and gender to expand the genre.
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I met Tom Lin at the Napa Valley Writers Conference this summer, where we spoke about our debut books. His debut novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, about a Chinese orphan raised by a white man to become an assassin in the post-Civil war western United States, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction. Having thoroughly enjoyed our panel and the book itself, I asked him if we might talkabout the book, about the genre of the Western, and also, about the fiction writing process in general.