an interview with richard price        photo of richard price
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pullquote   Larry Weissman: What inspired you to be a writer?
Richard Price: My grandfather, a Russian immigrant, was a
factory worker and wrote poetry in his spare time. It would get
published in a Brooklyn YMHA mimeograph, before xerox, and I
would see these poems in print in this little bound thing with
my grandfather's name on it and it would flip me out.  LW: And
when did you first begin identifying yourself as a writer?  RP:
Pretty early, actually, when I was ten or eleven. It was the one
thing where I felt I could be very precocious.  LW: How do you
think your upbringing in the Bronx has influenced your writing?
RP: Well, it's where I'm from and that tends to dictate where
you gravitate towards. You always tend to look back instead of
looking forward.  LW: What attracts you to the novel as an art
form?  RP: What attracts me to the novel is the space, the sense
of no limits. The onl