Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede by Bradley Denton

That's the funny thing, the people we see every week, none of them thought they were in the book. Did his weekly breakfast companies scour the pages trying to identify their literary alter ego? 'The people in Lunatics are not based on a particular group of my friends.

A similar circle of growing-up friends populates his 1996 novel Lunatics - a quintessential Austin book. So, every Saturday morning Brad and his wife Barb commune for an habitual (not to say ritual) breakfast with a close-knit group that he considers near-family although by vitrue of friendship rather than blood. Of course, you can't spend your entire life at a keyboard and everyone has to eat some time. He did not look like the decadent drug addict that we all know. He was wizened, stoop-shouldered, thin, and neatly dressed. But I did see him around town now and then. and Bradley Denton? 'I'm probably the furthest personality type from Burroughs that you could get.

(Burroughs is currently late of the world at large, having shuffled off this mortal coil in 1997.) Should we draw any conclusions from the fact that Lawrence was home to one of the 20th century's leading literary, junkie, beatnik homosexual iconoclasts. Burroughs, like Denton, is late of Lawrence, Kansas, which could figure in the telling of the story.

Among his various writing projects, he's wrapping up a short story that includes William S. He tends to take about three years on a novel.' The summer's scorching and oppressive heat may drive him indoors - Denton admits he's letting the yard of his Manchaca home grow unmolested until the weather breaks - but he's not staring a hole into a blank computer screen. I have to do something else.' And how does Van Gelder feel about being a bit behind schedule? 'I'm accustomed to waiting, but Brad worries about it more than I do. 'It's not a tragedy - I go through this stage in every book.' And that stage would be? 'I just feel like it's not happening the way I thought it was going to. 'I'm stalled on it right now,' Brad confesses between sips of a terribly oversized caffeinated beverage at Little City Cafe, a stone's throw from the Texas Capitol. Martins in 1992, will have to wait a bit longer. But, despite hopes it would be finished before the fall, it looks like Gordon Van Gelder, the editor who brought Denton to St. And the New York-based publisher has rights to the first look at his novel-in-progress. Martin's Press published acclaimed Austin writer Bradley Denton's three most recent books: Blackburn, Lunatics, and One Day Closer to Death.

Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede by Bradley Denton