Brighten the Corner Where You Are: An Interview with Wayne Booth

Abstract

This interview was recorded in Chicago on 29 December 1995 at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, where Wayne Booth had received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature at its luncheon. Several references in the interview are to the events at that luncheon, as well as to the address that Booth had delivered the previous evening, “Story as Spiritual Quest,” published in this issue of Christianity and Literature. There are also references to Booth's “Afterword” to Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth (1995); two articles Booth refers to are identified under “Works Cited.” The interview took place in a hotel room high above the Chicago River overlooking Navy Pier and Lake Michigan.