Interview: Globe-trekking with Anthony Doerr - Page 5

AD: Maybe — hopefully. Eventually. I certainly haven’t exhausted setting, but there’s something about the ability of prose to resurrect the past that amazes. It’s still about setting, of course—only now you’re walking through a city or the countryside and trying to imagine it as it once was, and render that into sentences.

LA: Any travel plans in your future?

AD: Some backpacking trips. A small book tour in June. Teaching in Taos and North Carolina. The Oregon Coast this fall. But not enough!

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Lisa Albers' writing has appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Woman, Poets & Writers, scores of literary magazines, and elsewhere. One of her Blogcritics book reviews was picked up for syndication by the Boston Globe last year. She is deputy editor for Crosscut.

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