Talk:W. P. Kinsella
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I've had a very pleasant surprise this morning while doing some research on one of my all-time favorite authors, Richard Brautigan. I found a link that took me to another of my favorite authors, W.P. Kinsella. Interestingly enough, Bill Kinsella and I had been in contact back in the early 90s shortly after I had published my first book. I was invited to do a promotional tour through California and up into Washington State. I had somehow learned of Kinsella and the University of Vancouver and jotted him a line, offering to speak to one of his creative writing classes. Much to my surprise, he accepted! And it's a prized letter I keep in storage. Unfortunately, I failed to get it together. But this morning, I read of Kinsella's dedication of his book, The AlligatorReport, to Richard Brautigan. Promptly, I checked out a copy of the Report and found a letter Bill had written to poor Richard. I,too, had written Brautigan back in the mid 70s and, like Kinsella, had received no reply. As I recall that letter which I agonized over, hoping to emulate R.B. enough to pique his interest, it contained a metaphor or two in what amounted to a lament over spending my vigorous youth writing advertising copy. I remember telling Brautigan that my pack of Chesterfields was crushed in a recent fall from my treehouse and I asked, "How is the budding author in me to survive writing "Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?" (a popular ad campaign at the time). Anyway, there was something quite heartening to me to learn of W.P. Kinsella's high regard for Brautigan - like mine - and to know that I had pursued relationship with both writers in my time. Signed, Dr. Will Tickel
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Is it really fair to say that Kinsella mainly writes about Canadian and First Nations issues? I would say that to most of the public that he mainly writes about baseball, and that the bibliography would agree, as there seem to be more baseball books than First Nations and "Canadian issue" books combined (although admittedly some, like The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, could arguably be said to have addressed obth). Rlquall 13:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
