I now live in Texas and was missing New England. It seems like this very New England thing to write about. Candlepin bowling is the kind we do in Massachusetts. Where does your interest in bowling come from? “Bowling gave you something to think about besides your regrets,” you write in your new novel, in which Bertha, your main character, builds a bowling alley. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and holds the James A Michener chair in creative writing at the University of Texas, Austin. She has received many grants and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. E lizabeth McCracken is a novelist and short-story writer and the author of six books including The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, and the forthcoming Bowlaway, a family saga set in 20th-century America.
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