An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
Margaret D. Bauer, East Carolina University
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Other Interviews with Tim Gautreaux:
Arnold, Elizabeth. "Best Short Stories 1997." All Things Considered (15 Dec. 1997).
Birnbaum, Robert. "Interview: Tim Gautreaux." Identitytheory.com (1 Oct. 2003):
http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum127.php.
Bolick, Katie, and David Watta. "A Conversation with Tim Gautreaux." Atlantic Online (14 Mar. 1997): http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/factfict/gautreau/tgautr.htm.
Fitten, Marc. "A Conversation with Tim Gautreaux." Chattahoochee Review 24.1 (2003): 103-12.
Hebert-Leiter, Maria. "An Interview with Tim Gautreaux." Carolina Quarterly 57.2 (2005): 66-74.
Joyal, Christopher. "An Interview with Tim Gautreaux." New Delta Review 16.1 (1998): 87-97.
Kane, Julie. "A Postmodern Southern Moralist and Storyteller Tim Gautreaux." Voces de América/American Voices Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers. Ed. Laura P. Alonso Gallo. Cádiz, Spain Aduana Vieja,( 2004): 123-45.
Kingsbury, Pam. "'Everything Has a Purpose': An Interview with Tim Gautreaux." Southern Scribe 4.8 (2003): http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/authors/Gautreaux_Tim.htm.
Langley, Greg. "Gautreaux Doesn't Need a Label Other than 'Writer.'" Baton Rouge Advocate (10 Oct. 1999): 11-12.
Larson, Susan "Pelican Briefs." New Orleans Times-Picayune (15 Sept.1996): D1.
Levasseur, Jennifer and Kevin Rabalais. Interview. Mississippi Review 27.3 (1999): 19-40.
Masciere, Christina. "Novel Approach: Tim Gautreaux Takes 'The Next Step.'" New Orleans Magazine (March 1998): 31, 35, 47.
Nisly, L. Lamar. "A Catholic Who Happens to Write: An Interview with Tim Gautreaux." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 8.2 (2007): 92-99.
Scanlan, Christopher. "Tim Gautreaux." Creative Loafing (June 2004):
http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A3956.
Work by Gautreaux and Criticism
Gautreaux, Tim. The Clearing: A Novel. (New York: Vintage, 2004).
———. The Missing. (New York: Knopf, 2009).
———. The Next Step in the Dance: A Novel. (New York: Picador USA, 1998).
———. Same Place, Same Things. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996).
———. Welding with Children. (New York: Picador USA, 1999).
Kanes, Julie. "Tim Gautreaux." In Twenty-First Century American Novelists, edited by Lisa Abney and Suzanne Disheroon-Green, (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004), 119-125.
Nisly, L. Lamar. "Presbyterian Pennsylvanians at a Louisiana Sawmill, or Just How Catholic Is Gautreaux's The Clearing?" U.S. Catholic Historian 23.3 (Summer 2005): 109-19.
———. "A Sacramental Science Project in Tim Gautreaux's 'Resistance.'" Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 5.4 (Fall 2002): 135-51.
———."Wingless Chickens or Catholics from the Bayou: Conceptions of Audience in O'Connor and Gautreau" Christianity and Literature 56.1 (Autumn 2006): 63-85.
Piacentino, Ed. "Second Chances: Patterns of Failure and Redemption in Tim Gautreaux's Same Place, Same Things" Southern Literary Journal 38.1 (Fall 2005): 115-33.
Links:
Louisiana Authors Index. Louisiana State University.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/la/
Louisiana Center for the Book. State Library of Louisiana.
http://www.state.lib.la.us/la_dyn_templ.cfm?doc_id=113
"Louisiana Novelist Tim Gautreaux Honored with Louisiana Writer Award." Louisiana Book Festival, (13 February 2009). http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/LouisianaWriterAward.html
Arnold, Elizabeth. "Best Short Stories 1997." All Things Considered (15 Dec. 1997).
Birnbaum, Robert. "Interview: Tim Gautreaux." Identitytheory.com (1 Oct. 2003):
http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum127.php.
Bolick, Katie, and David Watta. "A Conversation with Tim Gautreaux." Atlantic Online (14 Mar. 1997): http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/factfict/gautreau/tgautr.htm.
Fitten, Marc. "A Conversation with Tim Gautreaux." Chattahoochee Review 24.1 (2003): 103-12.
Hebert-Leiter, Maria. "An Interview with Tim Gautreaux." Carolina Quarterly 57.2 (2005): 66-74.
Joyal, Christopher. "An Interview with Tim Gautreaux." New Delta Review 16.1 (1998): 87-97.
Kane, Julie. "A Postmodern Southern Moralist and Storyteller Tim Gautreaux." Voces de América/American Voices Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers. Ed. Laura P. Alonso Gallo. Cádiz, Spain Aduana Vieja,( 2004): 123-45.
Kingsbury, Pam. "'Everything Has a Purpose': An Interview with Tim Gautreaux." Southern Scribe 4.8 (2003): http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/authors/Gautreaux_Tim.htm.
Langley, Greg. "Gautreaux Doesn't Need a Label Other than 'Writer.'" Baton Rouge Advocate (10 Oct. 1999): 11-12.
Larson, Susan "Pelican Briefs." New Orleans Times-Picayune (15 Sept.1996): D1.
Levasseur, Jennifer and Kevin Rabalais. Interview. Mississippi Review 27.3 (1999): 19-40.
Masciere, Christina. "Novel Approach: Tim Gautreaux Takes 'The Next Step.'" New Orleans Magazine (March 1998): 31, 35, 47.
Nisly, L. Lamar. "A Catholic Who Happens to Write: An Interview with Tim Gautreaux." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 8.2 (2007): 92-99.
Scanlan, Christopher. "Tim Gautreaux." Creative Loafing (June 2004):
http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A3956.
Work by Gautreaux and Criticism
Gautreaux, Tim. The Clearing: A Novel. (New York: Vintage, 2004).
———. The Missing. (New York: Knopf, 2009).
———. The Next Step in the Dance: A Novel. (New York: Picador USA, 1998).
———. Same Place, Same Things. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996).
———. Welding with Children. (New York: Picador USA, 1999).
Kanes, Julie. "Tim Gautreaux." In Twenty-First Century American Novelists, edited by Lisa Abney and Suzanne Disheroon-Green, (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004), 119-125.
Nisly, L. Lamar. "Presbyterian Pennsylvanians at a Louisiana Sawmill, or Just How Catholic Is Gautreaux's The Clearing?" U.S. Catholic Historian 23.3 (Summer 2005): 109-19.
———. "A Sacramental Science Project in Tim Gautreaux's 'Resistance.'" Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 5.4 (Fall 2002): 135-51.
———."Wingless Chickens or Catholics from the Bayou: Conceptions of Audience in O'Connor and Gautreau" Christianity and Literature 56.1 (Autumn 2006): 63-85.
Piacentino, Ed. "Second Chances: Patterns of Failure and Redemption in Tim Gautreaux's Same Place, Same Things" Southern Literary Journal 38.1 (Fall 2005): 115-33.
Links:
Louisiana Authors Index. Louisiana State University.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/la/
Louisiana Center for the Book. State Library of Louisiana.
http://www.state.lib.la.us/la_dyn_templ.cfm?doc_id=113
"Louisiana Novelist Tim Gautreaux Honored with Louisiana Writer Award." Louisiana Book Festival, (13 February 2009). http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/LouisianaWriterAward.html
About the Author:
Margaret D. Bauer, author of The
Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist (University Press of Florida, 1999)
and William
Faulkner's Legacy: "what shadow, what stain,
what mark" (University Press of Florida, 2005), is the Rives Chair of
Southern Literature, Editor of the North
Carolina Literary Review, and Professor of English at East
Carolina University, where she was named one of the ten ECU Women of Distinction
in 2007.
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