“Bookslut” Interviews Annie Proulx

By Allen M. Jones, 12-07-05

Turns out, the publicity-shy author Annie Proulx was recently cornered for an interview at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago by Bookslut contributor John Detrixhe. With the imminent release of her short story Brokeback Mountain as a feature film, Proulx comments (among other things) on the acting performances given in Brokeback Mountain, how she began reading by picking out books according to the color of their covers, and why she is drawn to writing about male characters. [End of article]