For better or for worse I just felt like I'd emptied the bucket on that particular world for a little while, if not for good. It took me a little while to accept that after I finished Winter's Bone. I've been at this long enough now to know that about every three or four books I have an interior need to alter what I'm doing somewhat just to satisfy further urges as a writer. "I just placed one recently, and now I'm finishing this. "I'm writing short stories just now," he says. Two blocks from my house is a cemetery where many of my relatives are." After my years at the University of Kansas and at Iowa, and after my stint in the Marines, I never thought I would stay here but something about its history and my being connected with it grabbed me. "I can tell things are already changing a lot. "I feel like the town I have known might not be here much longer," he says. Yet, that half-closed window blocks out the view of a West Plains that is gradually disappearing. Here is a writer whose books are pungently flavored with the sights, sounds, even smells of the Ozarks region. The bottom half is closed-"to block out the distractions of the view," he explains. Only the upper half of his window is open to the light. (1) And now, here we are again, this time with a new movie on tap.Ī window above Dan's desk looks out upon the landscape of West Plains, Missouri, where his family has lived for years. That conversation was reported earlier in these pages. We first met in Kansas City when Ang Lee and company were shooting Ride with the Devil, which had been adapted from Woodrell's Woe to Live On. The occasion is something of a reunion for us. He has agreed to talk with mc about his book, Winter's Bone, whose film adaptation is currently racking up rave reviews, including the Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Festival. It's a fine spring day in April, and Daniel Woodrell is at home.
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