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This post appeared on Andrew’s Book Club during Short Story Month–May, 2011. I’m reposting (with revision) in June because that’s how slowly this blog moves.
Who said that first? I’ve been repeating it for years. I’d tattoo it up one arm… … Read moreFIRST get your character up a tree. Then throw stones at him.
I wrote my own book of linked stories by accident.
It started with one story about a girl named Leah, age 11. It was my first short story and took four months to write (not enough time, as it turned out), and took place in the basement of her building in New York City. When… … Read more
My friend Natalie Baszile and I are studying Away, a novel of such narrative thrust that only on reread, pen in one hand and phone in the other, are we starting to understand how complex it is, how many things Amy Bloom is doing at once.
We’re not going at this systematically, just passionately. Natalie… … Read moreL Label, labia, labile, labored, laconic, lair, lambent, lame, language, lapel, lapels, largely, largess, lash, lashed, latter, laud…Oh, stop nodding off. Could it be that the… … Read more