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“I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.”

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Donald Ray Pollock is an American writer born in 1954 in Kentucky. His works are characterized by their depiction of rural life in the American South, known for their unique narrative style and profound social insight. more

“Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three years. The heroin epidemic is just too aggravating and sad and unsettling for even someone like me to live with and think about for the time it would take to write a book dealing with it.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.”

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Author:Lawrence Kasdan

“Nostalgia is partly illusion in that we remember things differently as we get older, etc. But that doesn't mean, when historians look back on the 1950s, say, from the year 2090, it won't be judged as a saner, slower, less narcissistic, more family-focused, and economically secure time.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and I thought that was fair.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well there.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it - to a small extent, mainly because I say things that most French writers would probably hesitate to say for fear of offending someone or upsetting public sensibilities. I don't think that answers the question, but I'm not much good at figuring readers out or I would probably be writing bestsellers.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

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