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Making Connecticut A Character In Stories

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Psychogeography was defined by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."

Psychogeography looms large in the work of writers. Try to imagine Baudelaire without Paris or Saul Bellow without Chicago or Faulkner without Mississippi. You almost can't picture it.

All writers are shaped by place, and they shape their places with their imagination.

Today, we'll talk to four writers about Connecticut and places within Connecticut and how those places -- both as stereotypes and realities -- shape their work.

I keep thinking I'm going to write the great Hartford novel, but I never do it. But I know how the great Hartford novel would go. Of course, there's another question: would anyone want to read the Great Hartford Novel.

Leave your comments below, e-mail colin@wnpr.org or Tweet us @wnprcolin.

Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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