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Interview: Thomas McGuane on ‘A Wooded Shore’ and His Favorite Books

“I look for the subjective pulse of the author,” says the novelist, hailing Hamsun while sensing “cynicism” in Nabokov. “A Wooded Shore” is his 18th book.

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