Brendan Hunt
speaker
297 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 4 May
Brendan Hunt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, I'll never be mistaken for Hemingway.
And I like sentences that are in a way bulging with too many impulses or notions.
They want to
change tone in the middle.
That to me is one of the most exciting and funny things a sentence can do and I love the masters of the sentence who are
you know, the beginning and the end do not resemble each other.
Donald Barthelme does this frequently.
But yes, I teach writing too, and I'm often having to point my most excited and sometimes, in fact, the very most gifted and promising writers to the value of a simple declarative sentence, you know, the kind that would disappoint these characters in the story very badly.
You need to land certain things and just ground certain things.
It's a big part of the job.
Oh, geez.
I try things still.
I dabble.
And I mean, I grew up in a painter's household and I used to paint.
So the easiest thing to say, and it's true, is that in my mind, I'm still sort of a painter.
I imagine what I would be doing on canvases.
And someday, I keep telling myself, someday I'll make some paintings again.
You know, it's a good thing to do when you're
old, too, and maybe the words aren't coming as easily.
So it's like a good fallback position for me.
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