Part 3 of David Gates' conversation with This Writing Life starts with a discussion of 'story' - how Gates writes them and how people tell them (and how Gates writes about people telling them).

----more----* is Gates as self-destructive as his characters? * 'I am now enacting a wild moment' * Virginia Woolf's sly sense of humour * Gates other literary obsessions: Barthelme, Wodehouse, Rex Stout (yes, Rex Stout) * first person, third person - Gates and narrative * 'Banishment': writing from a woman's point of view * Gates' (former) shrink on self-portraits in his work * 'I like existence. I don't really know what the alternative is' * weather, winter and writing

Part 4 (of 5) to follow.