Patrick Ryan
Patrick Ryan is the author of Send Me, Saints of Augustine, In Mike We Trust and Gemini Bites. His work has been included in The Best American Short Stories 2006, Tin House, The Yale Review and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.
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In Conversation | Issue 81
Andrew O’Hagan | Interview
Andrew O’Hagan & Patrick Ryan
‘A lot of journalism was in danger of becoming ‘celebrity writing’, in the sense that the writer and his conscience could become the story.’
In Conversation | Issue 81
David McConnell | Interview
David McConnell & Patrick Ryan
‘These were deranged acts but they were ultimately based on something that’s historically been treated as a social good, the sense of personal honour.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 81
Grand Mal
Patrick Ryan
‘And this is what very few novels or movies have ever gotten right about amnesia: it’s not exotic; it’s horrific and sad-making. I was sad because I had no story.’
In Conversation | Issue 81
Catherine Chung | Interview
Catherine Chung & Patrick Ryan
‘I think that my appreciation of what’s considered beautiful or elegant in math definitely carried over into what I appreciate in other fields as well. ’
In Conversation | Issue 81
Edmund White | Interview
Edmund White & Patrick Ryan
‘Although I was trying for the big-city and suburban realism of Yates, I didn’t mind adding a bit of fairy dust in the dialogue.’
In Conversation | Issue 81
Karen Russell | Interview
Karen Russell & Patrick Ryan
‘I think it’s impossible to draw a hard and fast line between reality and fantasy.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 81
Not Easy to Tell
Patrick Ryan
‘I told him he looked like an assassin in an Elmore Leonard novel, and he smiled.’
In Conversation | Issue 81
Julie Otsuka | Interview
Julie Otsuka & Patrick Ryan
‘Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 81
Madison, Mon Amour
Patrick Ryan
‘I left the office just in time to get to Penn Station, find my track and hop onto my train. We pulled out into an afternoon grey and heavy with rain.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 81
The End of the Discussion
Patrick Ryan
‘I just never thought I’d see the day when Amtrak would start poisoning people.’
In Conversation | Issue 81
Ann Patchett | Interview
Ann Patchett & Patrick Ryan
‘I grew up in an environment where there was nothing weird about limitless friendship.’
In Conversation | Issue 81
Anthony Doerr | Interview
Anthony Doerr & Patrick Ryan
‘The natural world is full of records and erasures.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 81
Utterly Dylan
Patrick Ryan
‘I became mad and political and ironical almost overnight, and I started to feed on folk music.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 81
On holiday with James Lord
Patrick Ryan
‘We talked about the snails in the yard that clung dying to the reeds of grass. At 5.05 he looked at his watch again. ‘Where’s the champagne?’’
Fiction | Issue 81
Athena Sees Good Things for You
Patrick Ryan
‘Dear X1, the first document began, On X2, as X3 moves into X4, I want you to turn X5 years into golden wealth.’
In Conversation | Issue 81
Brad Watson | Interview
Brad Watson & Patrick Ryan
‘This story did emerge from the single image of the mother, angry, vacuuming while her three boys watched television, a little dumbfounded and afraid. That’s a memory from my childhood that’s always stuck with me.’
