A Word on Words; 3108; Stephen Doster

fb don johnson you know once again welcome to a word on words great as stephen doster is i guess welcome and you've written about lord baltimore or baltimore the title of his book lore baltimore is not the person for whom the city was named this or baltimore is not for me to say so this is not a child's book by any sense of the nineties but i mention it because it does bring to mind harry potter written it does ring the bell as one when alison wonderland amazing you not take

a rally at a novelist carol and you're not done dave ago there is at the touch of infernal in there but this is sunday on where in places making of inferno where did this come from santa station poland's books our desired by has a different take on the your job books include this one i was embarrassed kid back in nineteen ninety four by my own business when assad backyard on the shelf that was the inspiration for this book or baltimore is dining italian is more of baltimore's three syllables i really was so inspired by bike you're just said than in baghdad a novel the fall into a backyard that's a great model and so the net and it intimidate another step i mean it is sort of an impossible dream that part of his life at a time that's a nightmare you create so

young upscale rich keehan over this warm wet so i'm a mama's boy a denied access to his father by his father's commitment to the business world is not a problem in an environment that my guess is somewhat autobiographical so on from say simon and the years not a small town is not a city is not on the country's foreign entity unto itself and on an island you can be cut off from the world and in and be isolated unless or is worth it says he's from a gated community he was due to things in life golf and said for a computer so by radical a dotty just briefly about this book one day when

we found ourselves accidental partners on and off court song ne yo ma in and replace god you play golf where it is there where the parole las were tense it ha ha ha ha ha a lead lead to know whatever a father tells him he wants him to go around the world on his vacation wants to running it in his teens late teens his father is so great ideas for no and like free and go see the world only enjoy a lie if an but learn something and are still a part of the universe that i know the same for and he rejects over states post punk band split off continues to be another barely guessers who finally finally oh man they say is as true though han si he sketches as riff off the golf course on as we're waiting for that pauses him the background on the mainland and isn't novel open a backpack and

he's instructed to deliver the somnolent to a lawyer and savannah and not to call his father until he rise until you're really good or you'll be disinherited all would take everything i got away from and now he's got two older brothers it and we don't really get to know very much about them except that liam please yeoman much you as far says he's failed raising his children and his taking desperate action on his last job as works to ensure that he'll be prepared to handle the world that he gets out on his own so it's worth goes that is it issues downloading and all a sudden there's another guy walking alone passes him by labor leader jerry wright almost hiding they see a crime committed

major crime he stumbles upon or baltimore this character who is based on documents and a first orange robot or be sort a limited limited would do and he wouldn't go crazy you know some characters won't go where you want them to and he he does yeah sort of bigger than life know it all his views of what the hour hurricane everything's a mess around him and he's worried years his kindness was changing everything more or less for the better and as word gets caught up in his wake they merely stumble onto this about the sheriff who's running drugs trying to find some political campaigns and some development in his county and that which is based on suppose with central cass it happened in georgia at that time or maybe thirty years ago on a third most of frying yet most of flavorings book at the time for sure you know if you read them well i don't understand what's going on here in this one

are unattainable those shows she's terrific some sort of transpose in their share from that year into this year and is worth an or bought with more bottles help runs into this buzz saw plus a few other this is a day of sheer he's your main do that and the end of any got a colleague who has an in flight gate that narrative who is overcoat over sheriff ron dunn bill and we dug him that the rat wretched federation says unless the place or start a ratchet appear and his twisted little faces brought in an office so if it turns out that the one thing that money involved in this crime their

drugs involved as a payoff and the shared this on the idea that this great character lorne bottom or his grades the duke that is a witness and so is this young as young kid when the summer serves mine business and and he suspects this person and more baltimore's behind we knew he was either in that area on that day and nor baltimore has words have to flee e to the coastal islands up a lot which is loosely based on several island real island off the coast where they become you know a nest in the drawer culture on that island yacht it's here that the real odyssey begins a name and

they found a brief haven together employees said turns out more of things to be out of prostitution and we find that very attractive young woman there pregnant her child had been kidnapped she thinks by the gypsies she you is alone with a father is not to be found but noble lord baltimore with his all see i and it is the inability to sort of magnetized targets film and leads him into contact with this father who is also on the lamb uses gave roger of jail and is running his name is bradley rarely rarely live through them and but he loves it that he's searching for her he

doesn't know where she is and he's on the lam from the law is named actor bradley counted and there's about a lawyer and i so he looks up with four baltimore nez was on this island and eventually the sheriff and his deputies make over searching for them just last fall it becomes a moment in the story at one brightly finally discovers that endure them or baltimore have an encounter with the first question is did you and the court said it didn't log onto or no of course not all the usual more relaxed their little more lax than about it here but this is this odyssey this his odyssey that as elements of a nightmare for me from time to time and in his life is in jeopardy and he goes through

these these exercises not realizing that on baltimore in a very real sense bump is leading in guiding him and protecting him he's tried it away for baltimore he doesn't live there on an he realizes among us agencies get in trouble for baltimore's around but this also a bottle and let's try some of those situations so it becomes really beholden to him and starts slowly but surely to trust they're gonna get away we're away from louis suddenly gets in trouble and winds up with them again and unmarked mobile baltimore through the architect of that oh there i am and i found myself caught up in the story ended even the most desperate moment i would

laugh out loud either something or baltimore set out something red said are armed by jim's words neither day was stunned how much how much humor did you knowingly injected into the store a walk along and again that also from saran days fielding tom jones right so your fate offers one is is ugh us by and i hear he doesn't let things get too serious and one our favorite comedians is tony hancock was a comedian back in england back in the city the sixties and his writers of gregg alton al simpson oy ross and classic on the routines saudis that influences me a lot like enjoyed that infuse that in tomorrow it and in anytime were bought more than the story got a little bit to the test didn't like to dispel a little humor we

threw it for though the justinian i want a weird were talking with stephen buster about his book or baltimore and it is some some book is sunny on the day the early encounter with the so called scott bonner who has a real talent i've talked about humor and there is a lot of humor there he finds out that this kid can hit a golf ball and he utilizes that to shake people down on a golf course for all sorts of weird devices that are supposed to develop again as knowing a snow thaw sam reich golfers were were suckers for anything at all i mean all i keep saying we just not pick up a male a catalog

well mcgrady mcgrady it wrote the male deathwatch on it it is an and he comes up with some of the devices called assures been other one is calling an alert and then there's one called a powertrain that's not like that's right all which you get a big box store and sends years as work to wear these devices your journey on the drywall in turn again and that has worsened things are incumbent since the handling his name but he's good enough that he can overcome them and he'll pretend to play badly and then it was always devices know hit the ball well and the people playing with just got to have but mcgrady then gets him in a bind and each of those words i got your another sheriff after year and you know loneliness a minute journey and eunice manson

up the river right in old baltimore and lord baltimore outsmart already there and get him out of that billboard a plan for its riser now that that card game is is one of the funny moments in the book coming in on baltimore as an undersea an open deck of cards seem like a court has put aside and he really can't integrate i mean it's it's it's easy it really gone to comment and get him into this game with five cargo best three out of five hands and a new government employment to find knew that i'd been there by that than they are as abbas was but that's only one there's only one problem yet some media is constantly

define himself and in difficulty and then once at one thing only island of the pilot it's very tough with james cooper a real person on his essay science at the uk and end and so use bill that's writer a thing as john cooper just say on a lot of running drugs and so the new james cooper right now thomas spalding was a plantation owner on sep one of those historians are familiar with my eye just anyone is his name and pulled another name over from sensors lasers beaucoup rover and an end and superman potent well they run into the hang in free and the waving man now they meet there is the job and serve the musicians major write the songs some of them are one is an

old full kind of pulled out of all literature you're painting down song right i did not write that in another less jesus love me sonos also note that out of a prairie and we're we're about trillions jerusalem and they had that jesus was me and then charity so i just copied it down and went home and that in the book stick them at the shadowland column and annie there is a crisis they also regard and long waits hurricane one thing after another eyewitness or the doctor informs consensus to dow's on the road get them to try one thing after another and actually take a blandly every three guys on the road and byways when it really grows in this i'm not sure is worth grows a whole lot fewer some lessons he realizes his words you know it really has as a value at some point his family

name and you have a few lessons with brando thinks the one that really grows more than when he started out in the book you think of lord baltimore had it in him to shoot the sheriff he did you know and so here are defended himself he would defend himself love i had the idea that they share with one get fed the alligators no matter what and i had a few that somewhere beneath the surface of your non dod was i gather the sole mafia don going to go away what is the oddest book is away half would say really i had to cut it off a hundred thousand words and the published voters really get they got me into do a few things to make changes on that our dual sane than any really flesh it out i wasn't good news deep

into it as as it isn't a ride so they really help me in some areas but is filial halfway through an hour if i don't know the alliance what more bottles all about the second well you so long ago that system and to me you know character sometimes their way from you know break out of it or baltimore he takes over the same i had to put him in time out a few times get him out of the city where his work was the focus as workers get in trouble is worth had to learn how to do take your palms from self and then the bulk would come back if i left baltimore baltimore in the book throughout you just take over the whole thing so he's won as characters we really got to stay on top of what he'll take up you know i think for our viewers i will simply leave the final

four on the street and there is a less true they're about is worries experience with his father as lord voldemort they didn't fare well but i think there is abe beard oh no indeed touch twist to what you do with this story after ins worth has proven himself but that the characters gay away from you and an editor telling you to flesh out the dueling seen raises the whole question about problems of writers which is part of what this program most often tries to be about and talked a little bit about how you work well a full time job in a row this i had another cousin of the company and our get home at night and we're probably from a thirty to

about twelve asian and on weekends and what saves carry little pieces of paper and one of our pockets of an expert level most all the time so i'm always working on a blue uniform standard grocery store i'm thinking up developing characters so you don't have to be sitting down to be thinking about what you write about and also trying to write where each night i don't finish i don't i don't trust as in if i get to really assist in part and then leave it interesting so the next night when i come to it on a un panel have to really get into it and sort of awaiting i'm anxious to get back to have to work so you were killed a naomi night and how long you sit there probably will was on this part to three hours you own a computer chair you take your notes and transposed them for the day and run on it so really i mean you've gotten all a job we were going for four hours every

night what do you do when you hey bring it to that sort of peak an interesting peak you're looking for you know if sometimes writers just have problems getting the text to do what they want to do we'll get right is one right in the sleeve oh well says olvera serve them by way of hope and support come along when twenty years ago where i can get into a groove pretty fast in the fifteen twenty minutes into that zone where saul clicking and a fall into the novel or story yet the more everything comes together so it's sort of suss or journey myself i was following these characters down these trails not know what was going to happen next to get an outlet to begin with a near the beginning and the end the sonos that happen the middle and had no deadline work on some luck you're back from of oil and charles and david who for

years for years wrought iron and two thousand words more urgent problem is it was an editor i mean you've got the manuscript you love what you really have turned it in i would think that be a moment when you'd say job done a thorough it out on a normal back to there's far from a look at matches or change their family of liked her a lot different notions of this students were the editor jon asked blair i was really there were with steve kerr can fuel industries are there really good about bring me along making suggestions and now forcing it you're a saber making suggestions and you know they're weak they're dead on every town than their suggestion so ben is of their experience so you know you will balance of flesh out the booing saying that flights don't realize they were pretty good about staying was taught and i need to do that and how much of that delay were among the file and annoyed all

had a month to make all the changes didn't integrating golfing salmon from the back to the front where the gods know why it to balance the book the island is a centerpiece going on the island that that sort of centerpiece the pivot of the sort of life and a right if you if you if you're among those pages of first chord the birds off beyond the middle to force the money on the last quarter the border of the answer was more balanced now and by doing that i did that last october's after september eleventh so i got to michael stipe about september eleven is there with the resurrection church like these is based on real church outside savannah in nicholson bar is terse the slaves brought over phone twenty hours to put on the mainland and in this book i have infinite where we can proceed and reasonably that is a like a like the symbolism of something like a cross that that or the

liberty bell or something that that of all that a broken incident in elevation to into one that they can be proud of or one that the conveyor so this does church where that would impose used to be sort of reaching the ground made a holy to that that that physical ground and change and change where people work and i hope that what we do with the world trade center were so they're so interesting metaphor for for the vote and trade center's reverse what about the preacher loop on where they came from there to preachers that used to come down yourself in the thirties father divined and heavy grates and i was trying or something up around them but kamal with this the silly

care to unravel a former boxer who catches clay not tell and terms like got a point and now he's a televangelist who follows natural disasters not going on that farm move from george foreman city had a third life to religion prize i'm well hey you mentioned twice now that you've got yet another book in you have to buy in a land of the father had no doubt about all of that for years what is it as a continuation and you know you get double a baltimore owens or get back into the earth as were things he's done for baltimore his journey through just begun as worse than learn all the tricks you need to know and in one summer humans like mia takes about ten times today for a lesson risa again so bob come back in and when he does help you with the dog and two steven baltimore

fans are we even talking to steven doesn't care about his book or bald or and you want to read it stephen thank you for joining us like all of you for a word and words on john c info on the greeting again fb fb once again

our guest is and i welcome your goal of an adorable words and that is quite a heavy to talk about one which is your book about your political life it's about life in general what is the focus of this intimate is your elected year election as a state representative from a great sorry say georgia elena congratulate you on being elected two years ago and let me congratulate you on your recent real