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Lyle Roebuck

 

Lyle Roebuck 2 – Version 2Lyle Roebuck was born on Saint Simons Island, Georgia. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and lives in Chicago, Illinois.

What’s on your nightstand right now?

A box of wine and Connolly’s The Unquiet Grave.

If you could spend a day with an author, who would it be?

Donna Tartt. She’s Southern and reclusive and I’m sure she’d let me hold her Pulitzer. (My backup is Harper Lee. Same reasons.)

What book made the biggest impression on you as a kid?

I’m going to strike book and go at it that way. This is always a good question to ask writers even if the answers will usually be more interesting than instructive. The dark eccentricities of Southern culture and, particularly, people’s aggrandized sense of self. I don’t mean pretension-—in fact it’s the opposite of pretension. It is a unique kind of freedom, I think, that can only come from losing.