A Word on Words; 2603; Robert Bingham

building a new world dawn johnsen in the once again welcome toward own words i guess the new writer and author robin young purest lot of it lets the book two or slaughter that you won a title for a book of short stories where does that come from pure slaughter by the way now you're a slaughter value is that it's the title story a mini collection you know you have to sue cheuse one one one the lead said you won that you'd you know that you admire mostly on the it has a lot of thou consonants to admit states and it's a mouthful i know but it's not it's a story of bad and it is the stardust of the violent violence in grind up and when the news when what anyone you're

grabs a kid not about you know people getting stick with a stick you know it when they're wearing armani suit certain i was being embraced malice or whatever it's it's about another kind of have this violent feelings that one has seen a slew of crying absolute bb gun related vandalism now things sort of should tell our audience that the that this book is a book of the city of that short stories but i am but there's no short stories that seem to have a theme occasionally you will have a story set a scene talent finish it finish it and then three four stories later i might bump into briefly are maybe pointedly somebody on that before they even take stands out

in my mind as somebody who comes to me once a given day but back to them the last or the book is crucial and that story and the one before it the last three stories in the book represents to me a change of pace i had a sense in reading are all the earlier stories in almost without exception i have a feeling that there was great it was such a great deal of suppressed anger the occasional yummy and abrego brief outbreak of violence that those last two stories really get to the heart of a violent society and the violence it's inside people on what i was wondering about was well those two stories were placed there been because of that or whether

there were there was just some other scheme in putting together an early store is what will the last story is is is violet yes but it's a it's a it's a youth violence it's it's it's not it's not so it's not like the other stories in that you need there are some very disgruntled people that haven't proms in the relationships one that it's about about and i was trying to capture the feeling of the kid and what kids do on halloween type night where i had this story doesn't take place on halloween that it has that feeling of you know of of carnival of oil or of of what you know what what are your skill sets when your kid rock fights and bb gun wars you now and then and then all this are commingling with the first sort of

experience with with seth and with with people you know drinking alcohol and an sat you know and all the sort of come together amounts in some kind of launch of kind of wonderful confusion i hope that they get the title itself you know doesn't turn readers off because it's not as i say you know it's not it's not she'd violence it's not in there or there's no that no women in these stories he now on is slaughtered senseless way i think like that i mean there's so much of that academia you know and in you can in the movies and in another in another romance exactly yeah well i the real question is well let's take the state so the story just eight plus one

now i find that story about people i know about but not people i know i am certain that that's generational yet plus one with the last story i wrote for the collection when you write a book there comes a point where the gallery's keep coming in and you stop driving by i mean it and it goes over we're listening to these and there's all this noise in north gaza's southern sky on and i just said screw this i wanna write something that more for this collection so and at the time the rock scene in new york was a big part of my life you know i was gone on the big fan of pavement various other bands i was that are some for my friends and i was tired and i did have this unfortunate how share which i found the

arm sort of repugnant wave fascinating the dynamics that were going on in the relationships within this how share in the hamptons which is this and i wrote a story about how about them about being upset about living in a house share this in the status and the problems of of you know paying the gardeners i end the end being the these are young people people are thirty one thirty two largest armed become successful but they're not really sure if they really wanted and there are the adult world full fledged yeah that's a major theme of this book you know our i feel a lot of my friends are a lot a lot a lot of people why i run into including myself you know i am a taxpaying adult but you know what an incredibly fearful of love the real thing the adult world on plus one

sort of rise this story of a bear i'm walking on walking on the cliff of of real life you know you put two men together and early have love them alive and when you inject i made a low as it made story and another woman another made store and other major but it's a different needs it isn't there really happened he's a difference all ages a difference well she's younger she represents she she represents how you think they haven't yet lawsuit they want to hang onto on cd rom the abcs sexy seize completely made up and people keep coming as a virgin base that are as elmo drew barrymore

shadow you know and iron and and i mean like a lot a lot of women in the collection that i had by them at fault for being too massagers but she's a siren is empty but there are numbers aren't here a little howling gets to the un that story that hurts me a lot that i'm almost ashamed that that store it's very autobiographical story at the time as having on trouble with alcohol and it's a story a promising raymond carver vain about what happened at about the

morning of the two to go their couple wakes up with a win to the protagonist has probably the most crushing hanover ever ever end and he and his lover of his girlfriend is calling on the telephone and down and that really knows that in as it and he just wants to make her a minute now and the julian and then g on each other and and shane i celebrate she's been singularly loyal to her fare he's been he's he's the occasional a you know sort of fool around with other women that he feels couple of them it's a story about what it feels to be miserable hung over and coupled with a good ol boy aloud and one one

one one raging an end and a man and that that story's at the nation's a gang sign up against a cab the arm but what i like about that story is it's not just about this man and this young man and his troubled life there's there's a switch and perspective to to libya at that the female protagonist and on suddenly you know the reader isn't really ready for because even with even along with the male protagonist for so long some way you do see things through you see how poor this religion is to her eyes and how much she you know at home and she now he's sort of stuck with their boyfriend and it enhances and run her own life it's a very depressing story likely a chore then the indian the theme of

unmentionable of bobbled it that it seemed to me as a reader that i was looking at a generation that i knew but did not know in other words and i have a son that's part of that same generation i know young journalists who work are a part of that generation are not interacted with them in an intimate way in and friends colleen ship but they aspects of their lives that i have missed an amman now introduced to is very is rape so my mind searching all on there partly for me to read your characters is to get a glimpse of our society that i have not seen before i mean it is upper middle class it is innocent until and so there and there is a drug scene there

there is a there is a sexual promiscuity that has evolved since the pill since my own cabinet generation a long long long many years ago and an edited it did seem to me that that i've missed something about people i know and i'm introduced to it here for the first time that's great i mean that's you know part of my mission is cynthia in inducing elderly and younger people may be an ode to too my set of characters and they're not you know representative of a generation i mean there's i have a you know there is a lot of a lot of this they're often there's an eye on the stories you know i'm take on journalism you know i worked there said than that i worked for you you're my boss they paper and have a great time but i wanted to get to the

two worlds what was swirling around the act of journalism in every answer in about the paper there is a book that begins by telling us about three people in atlanta journal uninsured americans call the fixers and endowment to the journalist is trying is trying to define a generation he's trying to write a trend story and i find that kind of journalist and that just beckham journalism just eats me up he's the much i appreciate my eye i have the most he cheered for that man in that story it i can't believe i wrote them on the end he hour and he in order to sort of get a grip on early you know a young guy young generation despair that is you know it

is beginning to take heroin again and write a sexy magazine story that's granted you know we don't do a lot of fame he strikes up a relationship with the dealer and the dealers who gets him a sunset goes out and does that she had no idea which is going up therefore zachariah and cdc is she's a rather glamorous as invalid sexy that tragic and a woman who is down to the steelers five bags of the favorites right and down the end of the deal or take server tutu this sir this man's arm to this man's says journalists house so he can write a story about an entire generation now because she's representative that i am i know i'm not once to bash the press arms and i still am in a member of the press but there is there

is a kind of that kind of journalism i just had to attack in an attack are right right and write a story around that how does this happen how is it that you have movies show at madison's they're doing is glossy are stories you know how to have is that really come of that and what could could in my imagination be the tragic end of it she dies in the year she doesn't get the interesting thing to me robin is that you have both know that inside journalism ct and then oliver now there's bailout rich layer of the mayor wants to sell the fray with money on the ideal of journalism man here and man is it is that it is about the heart and so on who truly misses her when she'd all well he's he's torn he's torn between his wife or his lover her dr sutton

and an end that lights on the dollar why from the dollar in order of the oddities doubles doubles is a story about tennis yes it's about a lot more than you said that i'm it's had doubles as doubles is a pretty sturdy if it becomes a part of my life a need you know its spending summers on a nantucket and an exhibit of them mrs robinson touch story of an older woman i am an ass asks the as the narrator to get at a dinner party there's there's a democratic is a gathering of the democratic intelligentsia folks and they all that they're having a having a wonderful dinner party talking about the country out there and talking about different political horse races and i

know john you know this world the world of political fundraising and cheese signs of the right moment and i'm so you're either cable up but within this is robinson of that the va reminds me ask about that there are several stories up front in which and i never gets the gala gala gets the guy i mean they come close the rub right up against a sexual encounter man and then there's and there's lip service in a way that's more to me that that's more neurotic in some ways i mean and the va the small moments storied similarities so much of our culture is he is you know another can't sexy i don't wanna be part of that you know and that's now i'm writing short stories

and i hope to carry on vivian kate and an end and that alex sprinter who they are constantly see on these kind of parallel lines that they're both professionals in the work and i hope to keep them going i know this is all boastful but as updike keeps jones and richard maples your column and in that beautiful thing about updike as you know he can he every four five years he pulls out another maples and though is right n n n and their divorced and really for most of the naples stories they've been a voicemail updike has been a huge updike short stories and couples that is now or couples and then and it is a big influence on me and by the message of what people miss each other in doubles in doubles i i thought it would

happen that i thought that there's more drama in game and then realize i'm in the young guy you know not sleeping with with oh they're bored with the old house right on the first day i thought everyone up to that room and sees her husband wood carving wood carving his wife is soon to be divorced wife i thought you know implement it immediately but he didn't i mean you let him goes way beyond loneliness was outed as mother and once again he has kept his mother with a magnet that illinois right you know you mentioned it into a n out of settling or you introduced her getting on airplane and being recognized by bum of the load once

shot a little pellet gun and easy going through that pg going through that done metal detectors and it goes off and goes over inches of other spending in my leg now yeah that that's my interest mat on and there's a lot of objective a fly that brings back you know don't know factor sounds and that brings back a whole kind of boarding school trauma for him and have for the narrator that story which is a story called the target audience on than done maybe i'm and maybe the most i caught my playlist store a it was in the new yorker on it's it's it's very smooth it but on an end our i wrote i wrote that i went i began that actually

weren't i was working as a cub reporter right here ann dunham and that but put it down for a long time as in cambodia army in nineteen ninety three working for a paper they're more continue work or haven't done covering some stuff in cambodia and that i got very homesick and i am in the iowa was there for about two and half months in and said rob i think he knew a bit of a vacation to have months and some like a long time a national bird and plump and it's a united as an ad from h exhibits it's exhausting ten thousand taste ay ay i went to singapore sat in a hotel room and eight and by myself and just was alone in and slept and i became very homesick and i thought god you know the sexiest thing in the world is what i would really like to be announced the shuttle the show when the shuttle came out with all these

of a professional people you know big almost that being jammed together at the time it seemed quite romantic of course now i get on the show on some it's awful that so i mean doesn't that we thought about this patient with the new york law since the right end and the new york show here watson and i and its its ad it's bad is that's a it's a it's a it's a strange crowd love story there on she's on this very she's on a mission to washington she's on a very dirty and to washington and that i that we'll department added some much as my own investigative reporting on on on their municipal bonds and she's there she were some wall street she knows the wall street journals cameron a very negative story about about her firm she's been set washington to try to have a story out and possibly payout he possibly offer some

information about it i'd initial public offerings since nagasaki and an asset and they go to white house correspondents' dinner which i've interviewed times and and i know it's a very negative work at bat that's a wonderful celebration but aren't it back at me with the key inside this cairo malevolent washington i am it at a world we've got to meet you've got a guy that did reporters financial people all all being you know so although not acting very professionally are related acting illegally is lester and others that day they come to it kind of it comes you're kind of

other herbal healing there's also healing they're in the midst of this corruption and it brings back home again and again i am island will go for the camera it feel about that cover the cover and so i get i'm i am a huge fan of ad as it does sound when i'm when i write i like to have a lot of things on fire you know i'm i snuggle on nine savage i don't know show it to you and did you have approval of the town they did it with the first cover or was unfurled with there was i didn't even want to see it it was it was a misreading of the fixers was a mangled silver spoon that was being away i had jokes and i say neither one and in fact when it before we run out of time and just ask you about the voices is that voice in marriages morning the same voice and plus won both of those of first person within the first person now know no net marriages murder is is the

only story that it is completely plot that thin air i heard friends to friends of mine were getting married and i'd just these are that is the first time i've been to a few weapons that it will end up using my questions and i just wrote a kind of phantasmagoria call kind of fun i don't know when you would have never known that has that story is that that story is that it is a parody of a murder mystery with a parody of a murderous eight so it's a very funny funny movie that honeymoon story at a couple is it