{"id":190,"date":"2007-11-02T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T19:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=190"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:59:24","slug":"bss-153-ursula-hegi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-153-ursula-hegi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula Hegi (BSS #153)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ursula Hegi is most recently the author of The Worst Thing I’ve Done<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Contemplating the worst thing he’s ever done.<\/p>\n

Author:<\/b> Ursula Hegi<\/a><\/p>\n

Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Collage artist protagonists and collage-inspired novels, stream of consciousness and italics, using specific fonts, Mason’s voice as a pulse, how Hegi communicated with typographers, the problems with emailing manuscripts, characters representing a contentious unified whole, subverting the nuclear family structure, the layers that come from writing 50+ drafts, gestures involving shoulder blades, why there are so many water environments in Hegi’s work, kayaks, William Faulkner’s building, on whether or not a novel is “absolutely right,” the origins of the name Mason, working on an intuitive level, planning through revision, ellipses and pauses, the introduction of a protester into the narrative, the Tribe of the Barefoot Women, nasty fortune cookies, the peace symbol and Mercedes-Benz, confusion in semiotics, Bush and Hitler comparisons, the curtailing of rights in contemporary America, how Hegi varies her stylistic vernaculars, being driven by writing, and being a “method writer.”<\/p>\n

EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n

Hegi:<\/b> For example, to write from Annie’s point of view, I need to become Annie. To write from Opal’s point of view, I need to be nine years old. To write from Trudi Montag’s point of view in Stones from the River<\/i>, I am her height. I feel her rage. I feel her bliss. I cannot write about feelings unless I go there with the characters. So sometimes I sit at my desk blushing, smiling, close to tears. But I do have to become each character. It’s like method acting.<\/p>\n

Correspondent:<\/b> Yeah. Interesting. Did you have any theatrical background?<\/p>\n

Hegi:<\/b> No. But I read about method acting when I was in my thirties. And I thought, “But that’s what I’ve been doing in my writing!” <\/p>\n

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Ursula Hegi is most recently the author of The Worst Thing I’ve Done. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating the worst thing he’s ever done. Author: Ursula Hegi Subjects Discussed: Collage artist protagonists and collage-inspired novels, stream of consciousness and italics, using specific fonts, Mason’s voice as a pulse, how Hegi communicated with typographers, the problems […]<\/p>\n