“Ideally, I’d like to conk out at my desk. It would be the easiest thing for my wife and children. I would be properly dressed. They would know where to find me. They would at least know where to look for me when I didn’t show up for dinner. I’d like to be in the process of doing it. I hope that I don’t have something that incapacitates me to the degree that I can’t continue to write because it’s hard for me to imagine wanting to be alive if I can’t continue to write.” - Author John Irving sits down with me to discuss his latest novel, Queen Esther, and his approach to writing. He also takes The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.