The Fogged Clarity Interview
The author discusses his work, his father, and watching “Batman” with Kurt Vonnegut.
photo by Marion Ettlinger
Andre Dubus III is the author of a collection of short fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novels Bluesman, House of Sand and Fog, and The Garden of Last Days. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the Rome Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters. An Academy Award-nominated motion picture and published in seventeen languages, House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a Book Sense Book of the Year, Oprah Book Club selection, and #1 New York Times bestseller. His memoir, Townie, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Co. in 2011.