Annie Proulx: ‘The place dictates what happens’
On December 30, 2015 In Americas
The staff of High Country News, that excellent magazine of the American west, are marking their 45th year by republishing some of their favourite articles. I liked best a piece from 2009 by Emma Brown on Annie Proulx’s association with the Red Desert in Wyoming. Proulx says: “Landscape is the driving force for everything that I write… Place comes first — what is this place, what makes it this way, what is the geology, what is the prevailing climate, what’s the weather like, how do people make a living, what grows here, what animals are here. All of this stuff I do first, and then the stories just are there because the place dictates what happens.”