![]() Can you imagine not wanting to build Warwick? At the time it probably made sense: 'some crappy university near Coventry, who's going to want to go to that?' Nobody thinks that now." They are both in the top 10 now in everybody's league table. I think he might have changed his mind when he became Catholic."Īnd as for Kingsley Amis's "more means worse" verdict from 1959: "What was he talking about? Warwick and York, they were the new universities then. He wouldn't let anyone have an Oxford degree who wasn't an Anglican. Even the saintly Cardinal Newman, always brought up by the old folks in the senior common room because he described this ideal university which never bloody existed, in his time or any time. "Every single time people have tried to restrict university education, they've always been shown to be wrong. Regal House Publishing is delighted t o bring you Steven Schwartz’s The Tenderest of Strings in the spring of 2022."The people with an education are always trying to prevent people from getting one," complains Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University. I’m Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State University, where I serve as fiction editor for Colorado Review. Henry Prize Story Awards, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. My fiction has received the Nelson Algren Award, two O. I’ve published two other novels, A Good Doctor’s Son and Therapy, and four collections of stories, including, most recently, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories. I know of no other pursuit that has stretched me, never allowed me to cut corners, and that has at times been breath itself. If I had to pick my proudest accomplishment, it’s that I’m still writing. I needed the experience of my own family, children, a career, and the accompanying failures and successes to put these very elements at risk for a fictional family. I don’t think it’s a novel I could have written as a younger man. ![]() My newest novel, The Tenderest of Strings, comes out of this lifelong ambivalence to find where you belong and to whom you belong. I’m not sure, as Faulkner noted, that the past ever leaves us, nor would we want it to, especially as writers who depend on its firepower for our stories. After graduating, I took various jobs in Santa Fe and Oregon, went to graduate school in Arizona, did a brief stint teaching in New Orleans, and finally found my way back Colorado, where I’ve lived for the last 35 years.įor all my love of the adopted West, a part of me never adjusted completely to the greater open spaces out here, as well as those between people, and I missed the familiar if gruff intimacy of East Coasters. Two months later, I enrolled at the University of Colorado and my life changed. Back in Chester, twenty-one years old and living with my parents, I happened to see a photo in Life magazine of the Rocky Mountains. Depressed, disliking my classes, and having met no friends, I dropped out. After going to college in Ohio for two years-freezing in the cold Ohio wind-I tried coming back East and enrolled at George Washington University. I grew up outside Chester, Pennsylvania, an industrial town on the Delaware River.
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