Tracy Daugherty Quote
Apocalyptic notions, she once said, thinking of earthquakes, floods, and fires. However, mixed up with this tolerance for notions in which the world is going to end dramatically is the belief that the world can’t help but get better and better. It’s really hard for me to believe that everything doesn’t improve, because thinking like that was just so much part of being in California. More deeply, the paradoxes in her writing suggest her real interest is language, its inaccuracies and illusions, the way words imply their opposites, and the ways stories, particularly stories that tell us how to live, get told or don’t. For
Tracy Daugherty
Apocalyptic notions, she once said, thinking of earthquakes, floods, and fires. However, mixed up with this tolerance for notions in which the world is going to end dramatically is the belief that the world can’t help but get better and better. It’s really hard for me to believe that everything doesn’t improve, because thinking like that was just so much part of being in California. More deeply, the paradoxes in her writing suggest her real interest is language, its inaccuracies and illusions, the way words imply their opposites, and the ways stories, particularly stories that tell us how to live, get told or don’t. For
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About Tracy Daugherty
Tracy Daugherty is an American author. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Daugherty has written biographies of several important 20th century American writers. These include Hiding Man, about his former teacher, the short-story author and novelist Donald Barthelme; Just One Catch, about the novelist Joseph Heller; and The Last Love Song, about the essayist and novelist Joan Didion.
Daugherty is a contributor to The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Georgia Review. His other published work includes the volumes What Falls Away (1996), which won the Oregon Book Award, and The Boy Orator. His first novel, Desire Provoked (1987) was acclaimed as "impressive" and "exquisitely accurate" by novelist Ron Loewinsohn in The New York Times.
Daugherty has written biographies of several important 20th century American writers. These include Hiding Man, about his former teacher, the short-story author and novelist Donald Barthelme; Just One Catch, about the novelist Joseph Heller; and The Last Love Song, about the essayist and novelist Joan Didion.
Daugherty is a contributor to The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Georgia Review. His other published work includes the volumes What Falls Away (1996), which won the Oregon Book Award, and The Boy Orator. His first novel, Desire Provoked (1987) was acclaimed as "impressive" and "exquisitely accurate" by novelist Ron Loewinsohn in The New York Times.