A Story-teller's Tale
This month Bookmark features two extremes of American story-telling.
Peter Taylor is little known in this country but in America many consider him their greatest short-story writer. Next month he publishes a fine novel,
A Summons to Memphis. Ian Hamilton talks to
Peter Taylor at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, about the foibles of his
Southern family and the phases of his own life which have shaped his calm, civilised, engaging voice. Swimming to Cambodia
Spalding Gray is not a writer. He tells his stories and those witty stories are his life.
Bookmark followed this zany tale-teller during a recent tour of Britain, as he absorbed the experiences and the encounters which become his living fiction.
In Manchester and London he performs the taut monologues which are his recorded life story so far.
Directors
PATCHY WHEATLEY. BOB PORTWAY Producer ROGER THOMPSON Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS