In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them.
Frederick BuschThere is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.
Frederick BuschBaseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
Frederick BuschI don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
Frederick BuschIf you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.
Frederick Busch