"Our great American writers were all newspaper people." -- John Gould
John Gould is a Canadian short story writer from Victoria, British Columbia. He has published two books of short fiction, The Kingdom of Heaven: 88 Palm-of-the-Hand Stories in 1996 and Kilter: 55 fictions in 2003. Kilter was nominated for the Giller Prize.
Gould currently teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. He is also a member of the fiction editorial board at The Malahat Review, a respected Canadian literary journal.
"A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.""At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.""I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.""If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble."