Boyhood, stalled males, and the wonder & beauty of late life - author Richard Hawley

Writers Drinking Whiskey

Boyhood, stalled males, and the wonder and beauty of late life. Join award-winning author and whiskey-drinking host William R. Hincy in his poignant, life-affirming chat with Richard Hawley, writer of the ON MY WAY OUT series.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:20 Introducing author Richard Hawley
00:02:26 Whiskey Time!
00:05:55 Hawley's author journey
00:11:21 Boyhood
00:14:32 The Three Lives of Jonathan Force
00:20:17 How to NOT lose your sense of wonder
00:22:32 The Headmaster's Papers
00:28:46 How to foster WONDER in our children
00:36:23 Stalled Males
00:50:43 Mid-life as headmaster of boy's school
01:00:12 Fiction Craft: form or story first
01:03:53 The Dead Language of Letter Writing
01:12:12 Book Three: late Life
01:20:41 Shots Rapid-Fire Questions
01:22:51 What is a shiv and how do I bate one into a cake?
01:26:12 Author Reading ON MY WAY OUT and poetry
01:27:16 Overcome with Prayer at Childbirth
01:28:41 ON MY WAY OUT Vol 4
01:33:20 Last Call Life Hack
01:34:06 Learn more about author Richard Hawley
Bios:
“Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.”
William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now hosts the popular podcast Writers Drinking Whiskey and lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.
Richard Hawley was born in 1945 in Chicago. He attended suburban public schools in Arlington Heights, Illinois, before attending Middlebury College, where he completed his B.A. in political science. He went on to graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University, where he earned an M.S. in Management Science and a Ph.D. in political philosophy. He also studied theology for a year at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, as an M.A. research student under the tutelage of the theologian W. Norman Pittenger.
In the fall of 1968 he began teaching at Cleveland’s University School, an independent college preparatory school for boys. He would go on to teach history, economics, philosophy and English literature, while also serving the school as history department chairman, dean of students, director of the Upper School, and, from 1988 until his retirement in 2005, Headmaster. In 1995 he was named the founding president of the International Boys Schools Coalition.
A writer of fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction, he has published more than twenty books and several monographs. His essays, articles and poems have appeared in dozens of literary, scholarly, and commercial journals, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, American Film, Commonweal, America, Orion, and The Christian Science Monitor and is represented in many literary anthologies For ten years he taught fiction and non-fiction writing at The Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont, and he continues to teach developing writers in a variety of settings. Recent work, including work in progress, draws increasingly from depth psychology and classical philosophy to illuminate contemporary problems.