SOURCE: An interview with George Garrett, in Transatlantic Review, No. 58/59, February, 1977, pp. 58-61.

In the following interview, Garrett explains his approach to writing.

George Garrett is a friend and helper to many of his fellow writers, a kind man who has been generous with his time and his energies, a warm, wild, funny man, a great storyteller, a vital person. A list of all his publications would take fifteen pages. In addition to books edited, articles, book reviews, poems and stories in periodicals, he has published four books of poems, five books of stories and four novels: The Finished Man; Which Ones Are the Enemy; Do, Lord, Remember Me; Death of the Fox. He also wrote Sir Blob and the Princess: A Play for Children, and the original story and the screenplay for the film, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. He has taught at Rice, Wesleyan, University of...