Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).
Contents:
Michael Cunningham : a bottomless fascination with the process itself -- Edwidge Danticat : you have to live your characters' lives with them -- Mary Gaitskill : I've worked very alone and very privately -- Myla Goldberg : moving through the language on the page -- Ha Jin : making the sentences fresh -- Bret Anthony Johnston : there is an unassailable victory in the very telling of a story -- Edward P. Jones : the image you woke up with -- Lê Thi Diem Thúy : writing certain experiences into the language -- Chang-rae Lee : the drama of consciousness -- Jonathan Lethem : discovering the story word by word -- Alice Mattison : my poems began to get more like stories -- Rick Moody : when you see a rule, break it -- Nancy Rawles : I try to write rhythmically -- Marilynne Robinson : an intensifier of experience -- Donna Tartt : character is the very lifeblood of fiction -- Mary Yukari Waters : snatching at random bits of light.
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