While Buddha Was a Cowboy seems contemporary, it’s actually a period piece, largely taking place between 20. My previous novel, The Cold Last Swim, concerned itself with the seeds of that estrangement (in the 1950s, juxtaposing James Dean and Ronald Reagan) and Buddha Was a Cowboy explores it from a more current perspective. WHY THIS TITLE: I wanted to further address the gulf that has taken up residence in the American culture. Novels about Hollywood that are truly literary are more from a bygone era. Hollywood’s different in that there are many writers, but most don’t concern themselves with literature. Writers who teach to support their writing habit, you’re still going get plenty of campus novels. Gore Vidal once said that a writer in America can either make a living in academia or in show business. THE BACK STORY: I’ve always been enthusiastic about campus novels, especially the English ones, such the hilarious Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh, and was aiming at some contemporary version of that.
But there are surprises in store for Aaron before the story reaches a dramatic conclusion.īuddha Was a Cowboy is a metaphor for many of the issues engulfing and dividing America today, and a darkly humorous take on the current cultural landscape. And he gains the loyalty of some very challenged students-a murderer, a lobster wrangler, and an apostate. His charming and able assistant has his back, fending off a demented poet and venomous colleagues.
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