In the above video from Louisiana Channel, the short-short story master Lydia Davis is asked about her advice to young writers. Her main bit of wisdom? “Do what you want to do, and don’t worry if it’s a little odd or doesn’t fit the market.”
These authors use fracture and disruption to capture the experience of trauma and enact it in the text itself
The NYT opinion columnist referred to the National Book Award longlists as “the literary world’s DEI checklist"
He's begun to fantasize that our son will wipe my in-laws off the planet
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