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Michael Chabon | Ben Bova | Zadie Smith on Genre: Literary Adaptation | Truth in Nonfiction THE MAGAZINE OF THE PIPER CENTER FOR CREATIVE WRITING | COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES WRITING THE WORLD POETRY BELOW THE EQUATOR PETER PEREIRA ON THIS WRITER’S LIFE INTERVIEWS WITH JOSÉ CRUZ GONZÁLEZ & CHRIS BURAWA PROFILES OF MICHAEL CHABON | BEN BOVA | ZADIE SMITH ON GENRE: LITERARY ADAPTATION | TRUTH IN NONFICTION ALSOINSIDE EDITHGROSSMAN | DONLEE | KEVINMCILVOY | GUILLERMOREYES IN THIS ISSUE NUMBER 5 FALL 2006 FEATURES EDITOR UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS ................................................................... 4 Charles Jensen Beth Staples recounts a writer’s exploration of South America and its people. COPYEDITOR IMPOSSIBLY TRUE TALES ............................................................................ 7 Elizabyth Hiscox W. Todd Kaneko profi les the varied talent of Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon. Kelly Mc Williams STARS ON THE RISE ................................................................................... 10 Molly Meneely CONTRIBUTORS Elizabyth Hiscox previews the 2007 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Max Doty Peter Pereira Conference. Michael Green Guillermo Reyes Tina Hammerton Beth Staples IN THE COMMUNITY’S WORDS ................................................................. 12 Elizabyth Hiscox Isaac Wilson Douglas S. Jones Carlos Manuel talks community theater with José Cruz González. W. Todd Kaneko Don Lee WOMAN OF LA MANCHA .......................................................................... 15 Kevin McIlvoy Molly Meneely looks at Edith Grossman’s revelatory translation of the Cervantes classic Don Quixote. PIPER CENTER STAFF MAKING THE FUTURE ................................................................................ 22 Jewell Parker Rhodes, Artistic Director Max Doty boldly goes where only Ben Bova has dared to explore. Roxane Barwick, Program Coordinator Charles Jensen, Program Manager MYSTERIOUS ALCHEMIES .......................................................................... 24 Salima Keegan, Editor/Publisher Michael Green explores the process of literary adaptation for cinema. Paul Morris, MLSt Program Director Aimée Baker, Program Assistant MUTUAL TRANSFORMATIONS ................................................................... 30 Douglas S. Jones describes changes in this year’s Visual Text Project. PIPER CENTER SHIPS IN THE NIGHT .................................................................................. 32 ADVISORY COUNCIL Elizabyth Hiscox sits down with Nightboat Books founder and ASU alum Jennifer Cha- Ben Bova Greg Thielen Billy Collins Raye Thomas, chair pis. Harold Dorenbecher Theresa Wilhoit Dana Jamison, chair George Witte BEAUTIFUL CHAOS ..................................................................................... 35 Simi Juneja C. D. Wright Molly Meneely discusses Zadie Smith’s new book, On Beauty. Jo Krueger Kathleen Laskowski BROKEN PROMISES ................................................................................... 38 Maxine Marshall Isaac Wilson investigates the diff erence between fi ction and nonfi ction. Naomi Shihab Nye Barbara Peters, NO SMALL MYSTERY ................................................................................. 40 ex oficio Tina Hammerton talks with the Arizona Arts Commission’s and ASU MFA Alum Janaki Ram Christopher Burawa. TABLE OF CONTENTS PHOTO DEPARTMENTS Geoffrey Gray LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR ....................................................................... 3 THIS WRITER’S LIFE: PETER PEREIRA ......................................................... 18 Q & A: LEE, MCILVOY, REYES ...................................................................... 42 ALUMNI LINER NOTES ............................................................................... 49 PRINTED IN CANADA CONTRIBUTORS ......................................................................................... 50 2 FROM THE DIRECTOR LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear Piper Friends, It has been another successful and exciting year for the Virginia G. Piper Center. Thank you so much for embracing the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series! There were familiar faces and new faces—and, most particularly, a growing legion of teen- agers, young adults, and working professionals. Together, we proved that the Valley of the Sun can be a literary haven for all; that Arizonans care deeply about language and art. Because of your generous appetite for spiritually fulfilling stories and poems, the Piper Center will invite the public to attend the 2007 ASU Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writer’s Conference evening events. Internationally-acclaimed author Walter Mosely will be our special guest and we’ll host a screening of Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington. Award-winning poet Tony Hoagland, novelist Diana Gabaldon, and returning favorites Bernard Cooper, Carolyn Forché, Tania Katan, and Aaron Shurin will also join our line-up of conference fac- ulty. The conference will take place February 21 through February 24, 2007, in the Historic Quarter of the ASU Tempe campus, which includes the beautifully restored Piper Writers House and gardens. The Piper Center will also be collaborating with Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to celebrate Cervantes’s Don Quixote. Edith Grossman, an award-winning translator of Spanish literature, will join us for several days . and we will do a concert perfomance of Dale Wasserman’s classic musical Man of La Mancha, which was based on the original Cervantes novel. These events will culminate with Edith Grossman’s public reading event on November 3. I also look forward to seeing you at Zadie Smith’s reading at Old Main on September 16 and Michael Chabon’s event at the Orpheum Theater on October 7. For those of you that have joined Piper Friends, thank you. For those of you who have yet to join . please do it today. Together, we can continue to grow our community’s passion and excitement for literature in all its varied forms. You can make a difference! Warmest wishes, 3 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS TODD FREDSON DURING HIS TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS PIPER CENTER FELLOWS TRAVEL ABROAD BY BETH STAPLES Thanks in part to a Virginia G. Piper International Trav- of creative writing. As Todd set out for Ecuador last sum- el and Research Fellowship, MFA student Todd Fredson mer, fiction student Kriste Peoples flew to Florence, Italy spent last summer traveling around Ecuador, Peru, Co- to study the depiction of Africans in Renaissance artwork lombia, and Brazil. The fellowships—which were awarded for a creative non-fiction project. A third fellowship was for the first time last summer—were created to help stu- awarded after the Fall 2005 semester to Matthew Gavin dents in ASU’s Creative Writing graduate program fund Frank, who traveled to South Africa to study an artistic travel-related research for their literary endeavors; they movement rising out of squatter camps in Cape Town, d are awarded based on the literary merit of the student’s who is now working on poems he hopes to turn into a proposed trip, the potential for publication after the trip, book-length manuscript of poetry about his experience. and the contribution of potential publication to the field Now that nearly a year has passed, Todd’s trip to South 4 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS America has proven itself to be literarily fruitful in many the terracing of mountainsides; how plants grow differ- ways. During the trip he made contacts with writers and ently at different altitudes; the medicinal benefits of some artists who are not only inspirations for his work, but also of the plants in that climate; and that Peru has over 4000 resources for him as an International Editor for Hayden’s types of potatoes! Gonzalo appears in beautiful detail in Ferry Review. His ruminations about the people he met the second section of “Echolalia.” and things he saw on the trip continue to provide new After Peru, Todd and Sarah decided to reroute directly discoveries that he explores through his poetry. Together to Bolivia, but at the border, they heard stories of an erup- with Sarah Vap, his travelling companion and fellow poet, tion in the political climate, protests over fuel, the indige- he has already published a four-part response to his trip nous people versus the European descendents in charge of entitled “Echolalia” in 42opus, an online literary maga- energy policy. Things were shutting down and becoming zine. The website describes the work as “a traveling im- unsafe. So, like most best-laid plans, these changed. Todd pression/poem/(non)fictional telling” of Todd and Sarah’s and Sarah decided to reroute to Colombia. Two weeks trip. The four installments of “Echolalia” are divided by later, the president of Bolivia resigned. country, and are poetic renderings of what they saw, what In Colombia, Todd and Sarah attended the Interna- they did in each place, and how their experiences changed tional Poetry Festival of Medellín, which featured dozens their thinking. The poems are a documentation of how of poets from around the world, including Wole Soyinka, Todd and Sarah processed (and continue to process) these Rita Dove, Ernesto Cardenal, Sherwin Bitsui, Breyten experiences alone and then together. Breytenbach, and Sujata Bhatt. Medellín used to be the Todd embarked on the trip last summer hoping to at- drug capital of the world—home to Pablo Escobar. The tend literary events in each of five countries, do research, poetry festival started fifteen years prior in an attempt to talk to writers, share his poetry, and listen to
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