From “victim to victimizer of victimizers” today’s guest talks about his journey from childhood victim to vigilante status and how somewhere in the midst of the chaos, writing saved his life. Today on The Karen Kenney Show we’re talking to one of my most favorite people in the world; New York Times Best-Selling author Andre Dubus III. Andre is not only a beloved friend but also one of my writing mentors. As a fellow Merrimack Valley kid (he grew up in Haverhill, MA) - his work always speaks to my heart. His memoir TOWNIE is powerful, vivid, haunting, vulnerable, wicked tough and heartbreakingly tender. In this episode, we dove deep into writing, storytelling, violence, creativity, spirituality and what the writer/artists role is in the world! You guys do not want to miss this conversation! Andre is the author of “The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, Dirty Love, Gone So Long and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog which was both an Oprah Book Club Pick & made into an Academy Award Winning Movie, The Garden of Last Days (soon to be a major motion picture) and his memoir, Townie”, a #4 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times "Editors Choice". KK's Key Takeaways Run Like Hell Or Freeze (6:10) Small Quiet Voice (15:37) Writing Saved My Life (22:03) I Lose It (31:56) Paying Attention To My Intuition (40:58) Writing Deeply (49:39) Individual Curriculum (1:02:18) Letting Go Of Control (1:09:29) How It Really Happened (1:14:38) Who Might I Have Been? (1:19:45) Oprah Bookclub (1:32:22) Gratitude (1:38:00) Pay Attention (1:47:51) Dreaming Side Of Your Mind (2:01:24)   Andre Dubus III is the author of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days (soon to be a major motion picture) and his memoir, Townie, a #4 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times "Editors Choice". His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies, and his novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly. His novella collection, Dirty Love, was published in the fall of 2013 and was listed as a “Notable Book” by The Washington Post and The New York Times, and was named a New York Times Editors’Choice”, and a Kirkus “Starred Best Book of 2013”.    His new novel, Gone So Long, published in October 2018, has received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal and has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including selection for The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018” and “The Best Books of 2018”, “Top 100”, Amazon. Mr. Dubus has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, Two Pushcart Prizes, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in...