The Washington Post, August 12th, 1990
"You didn't ask a man hard questions, not in the Ten Thousand Islands, not in them days," says a character in Peter Matthiessen's Killing Mister Watson, his long-awaited novel about a murder in the 1910 Florida outback. The same goes for Matthiessen himself. After a bare minimum of interviews early this summer-in all of which, for whatever reason, he remained largely invisible-the author has taken to refusing requests to talk about his new book. This reticence is no recent thing. In 20 books, he's never done a publicity tour; he hardly ever goes on television; he accepts only the occasional sp...
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