Woiwode

To those tempted to call the Woiwode men accident-prone, the author advises: "Take the hanky away from your face," because "the farmers who feed you food each day, putting in hours beyond their fears, the maids and laborers from day to day face dangers you can scarcely imagine."

Memoirist of a Companionable Prairie Home 2008

           The method for novel that I learned from Woiwode is to write straight through once in pencil, without (you or anyone else) reading or rereading it, before rewriting — three months or so for a 350 pp. first draft.

Hoss Men (divided) 2010

 Woiwode partly supported his family in the 60s by publishing inThe NYer (his friends were De Niro and Barthelme) so perhaps there was little trouble in his finding one.

Hoss Men (divided) 2010

Woiwode recommendedGulagto the workshop, had come close to requiring it, but decided to trust us by suggesting it instead, and everyone (except me) did it and didn't speak of it but nodded his and her head silently in the hall or coupled over it.

Solzhenitsyn Juke-Box 2009

PEN had invited Richard Ford, Frederick Manfred, Larry Woiwode, and others, and Ford and Woiwode read well, but Fred Manfred, who is not a poet, read his poetry and essentially sank the whole series.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

PEN had invited Richard Ford, Frederick Manfred, Larry Woiwode, and others, and Ford and Woiwode read well, but Fred Manfred, who is not a poet, read his poetry and essentially sank the whole series.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

Woiwode recommended Gulag to the workshop, had come close to requiring it, but decided to trust us by suggesting it instead, and everyone (except me) did it and didn't speak of it but nodded his and her head silently in the hall or coupled over it.

Solzhenitsyn Juke-Box 2009

This time Woiwode got out to call for help, but police say Wendt made a U-turn and aimed his Ford Mustang at Witt's Toyota; roaring across the road, he crashed into the car head-on.

Stalked To Death? 2008

"The Woiwode family has been in the state, in one branch or another, since 1881," he writes, taking a charming pride in such facts as that a great-uncle was "one of the first auto-accident fatalities in North Dakota."

Memoirist of a Companionable Prairie Home 2008

Roughly 100 to 200 protesters marched to the Wells Fargo site from the U.S. Federal Reserve building, according to Pete Woiwode, 28, a protest organizer who spoke with Reuters by cell phone from the scene.

Reuters: Press Release 2011