Chuck Wachtel on Reader's Almanac, 1983

Chuck Wachtel

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Writer Chuck Wachtel talks about his third book and first novel, Joe the Engineer, which explores the world of a working-class Vietnam veteran in Richmond Hill, Queens. Wachtel cites his characters as his greatest influence, but also mentions writers and artists like Hubert Selby Jr. (author of Last Exit to Brooklyn), Earl Thompson (author of Garden of Sand), Tillie Olsen, and filmmaker Luis Buñuel.



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