Tag: The Writer’s Center

  • An Interview with Clarence Brown

    An Interview with Clarence Brown

    If you read the jacket of Clarence Brown’s first novel, Needs, you’ll learn that he is a recovering heroin addict. “Born in Charlottesville, Virginia,” the description continues, “Brown moved to Baltimore at the age of twenty-two and immersed himself in the street life, heroin, and other drugs for twenty-seven years. Like Rip Van Winkle, he…

  • An Interview with Richard Peabody

    An Interview with Richard Peabody

       I met Richard Peabody at a local literary conference about seven years ago.  At some point in the conversation, he mentioned his Novel Workshop–how the idea came to him, how important it was to get a full critique of a manuscript instead of just the first three chapters, and I remember declaring that I…