http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:22:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en David Treuer Q&A Q: How did you come up with the idea for this book? What attracted you to the idea of a document only one man can read? A: The story (and the characters cursed/blessed to live it out) always comes first. In this case, Dr. Apelles—a special, unique, singular, ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=20 Hello All–Check out the “last line” section of esquire.com for a new essay about my new novel NEVERLAND. It’s prurient, but it’s got heart. For those of you who have come here FROM the Esquire site, here’s the exceprt from the new novel that I wrote about. Let me know what ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=19 well, it had to happen. 8 months and 640pp later, the novel is finished. yep. done. usually it takes me 5 years to write a book so either i must be on to something or . . . well. or i’m on to something. we’ll see. i’ve managed to wander ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=18 so . . . its been a while. sorry about that (it’s hard to apologize to millions but i’ll do my best). i’ve been in paris, montreal, san antonio, wisconsin, home, wisconsin, home, montreal, paris. et cetera. for the last two months. paris was wonderful as usual: the stellar group ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=17 Hello all and everyone. I lied. I said that I would write a daily blog. I hereby formally apologize to the 3 people that care . . .! In other news: the NYT (A09) announced today that I received a Guggenheim Fellowship for my work on a non-fiction book about contemporary ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=14 Evidently the NALS conference in Michigan this last weekend was a success for everyone involved. From what I hear there were really funny jokes made at my mother’s expense and wonderful assessments of my character and intellect were produced by people I have never met or barely know. I don’t ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=13 So . . . . the big NALS (Native Amerian Literature Studies) conference is coming up. As I mentioned before–there is a paper being presented entitled “IS Treuer’s USER’S MANUAL a User’s MANUAL for DUMMIES?” And . . . one recent blogger has suggested that my stance that all books ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=12 well well what’s new? finished Book I of the new novel. Back to working on the non-fiction book about “rez life.” Have 75pp or so of that. Very different modes to be working in at the same time. But . . . . productive. I wrote APELLES the same time ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=11 It’s official. The release date for the paperback of THE TRANSLATION OF DR APELLES has been moved to the Spring of 2008. We were squeezed in the fall–not enough time for advance publicity and cover design et cetera. But I hear Spring is the new Fall, so all is cool. ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=10 Okay. So it’s not a daily blog yet. I missed a couple. Thanks for the comments–those of you that commented. And for those that care–I am STILL getting up at 4:30 and still cruising along. 125 pages and counting - - - over the last 9 days. I think I ... http://www.davidtreuer.com/wordpress/?p=8