Ethan Canin Author, teacher, screenwriter, and co-founder of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto

First Words Build a Hero
December 3, 2007
- I started out with a single sentence. Which was, ‘He’d killed one man and possibly a second and had told Lyndon Johnson he was a coward after paying two thousand dollars to meet him.’ That was the voice: He had chutzpah and was a capitalist but also an anti-capitalist. A guy who had marched to the top but had some semblance of social conscience. –Me, on Carry Me Across the Water, ...
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