SOURCE: An interview with George Garrett, in New Orleans Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter, 1990, pp. 33-40.

In the following excerpt, Garrett discusses contemporary literature and explains various aspects of his own approach to writing.

Celebrate the sixty years of author George Garrett, a national treasure. As artist, George Garrett has always had the courage to go beyond mastered skills to explore new genres and techniques. He is novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, and satirist. With patience and humility he has become the very model of how to cultivate insight and craft throughout a career to achieve master works. In the rich narrative portraits and historical detailing of his critically acclaimed Elizabethan novels Death of the Fox (1971) and The Succession (1983), Garrett discovered worthy tapestries to display his diverse talents. In the autumn of 1990 he will publish the third of these Elizabethan works, Entered from the Sun. This novel centers...