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Between Humor and Darkness: An Interview with Maria Reva

by Isaac Yuen

…figure out what kind of person would do this particular kind of thing. For example, in the last story, “Homecoming,” I had the premise of misery tours— Wait, that is also a real thing? Oh, yes, I read an interview in Secondhand Time (Random House, 2016; first published in Russia in 2013), by Svetlana Alexievich, that mentioned there were agencies where oligarchs can sign up to be homeless for a day, or be mock-tortured as political dissidents—of c…


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Delivering Story: An Interview with Ben Stroud

by Kyle Minor

…d.” But my childhood was for the most part fairly boring, at least when it comes to putting it in a story. And I come from a small town in the south, which seems like fairly well-covered territory. I knew there was material there I would want to write about, but I didn’t want to limit myself to that world. Add to that the fact that my experience of growing up in the south didn’t match the experience—and often stereotype—found in most film and fict…


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How Big the Bigness Is: Part I

by Scott F. Parker

…Perhaps it’s because creation is a mysterious process and one’s moment may come only, if at all, when one’s moment comes that Kesey never wrote another book like the first two. The sadness of the story is not the project he undertook but the results he got. It’s common nowadays to invoke Kesey’s drug associations as a way of dismissing him on a mixture of aesthetic and ethical grounds. To stop writing, the thinking goes, or even to deprioritize it…


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Scars and Dirt: Why I Teach the Modular Story

by Christopher Lowe

…parated by space breaks. Earley denies the reader the ease of that kind of compartmentalization and insists upon modules at the sentence and word level. The story becomes such a jumble of information, students often balk at it within the first three or four pages, not understanding that there is meaning in chaos if the chaos is organized well enough. By the end, most students are on board, even if they can’t figure why the things they disliked abo…


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Against Meaning: On Outpunting One’s Coverage and Achieving Greatness Anyway

by Michael Byers

…and the political and in fact one of her last stories, “Where is the Voice Coming From”, was composed in an angry fugue in the days after the assassination of Medgar Evars. As a young woman Welty made many hundreds of photographs of the vanishing rural South, including – unusually for the era – poor blacks, “taking photographs of human beings because they were real life and they were in front of me and that was the reality.” Welty was always caref…


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The Song is You, by Arthur Phillips

by Katie Umans

…terer, now a separatee, who says callous, manly things like – of casting a commercial – “the final test before engaging a model had to be the search for premonitions of aging.” He has recently lost his toddler son and his marriage, too, as a casualty of the grief, so you forgive him being a bit of an aimless lout. Julian’s ex-wife Rachel is making half-angry, half-tender attempts to reconcile, but Julian is looking for the elusive clean slate. Tha…


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Horror of the Mundane: Stephen King, Night Shift, and the Story Collection

by Jordan Millner

…horror, King’s first story collection shocks the horror aficionado back into an uncomfortable reality. In doing so, Night Shift achieves the ideal: a collection that is more than the sum of its parts. As early as 1978, Stephen King exploded preconceived notions of horror for newcomers and avid fans alike, and he continues to deliver on this thirty-five-year-old promise to disturb and unsettle readers everywhere. Further Links and Resources: Read J…


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Finding the Narrative: A Conversation with Sung J. Woo

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

…ine, and KoreAm Journal. A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from New York University, he lives in Washington, New Jersey. He spoke with Jeremiah Chamberlin on May 15th during the Ann Arbor Book Festival. Interview JEREMIAH CHAMBERLIN: Let’s begin with the genesis question. What was your path to writing? Were you someone for whom writing was always important, or did you come to it later in life? SUNG WOO: Yeah, much later. I wasn’t even m…


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Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School, by Kevin Smokler

by Brandon Bye

…Mitchell pulls together a list of “habits of successful adaptations.” For example: “The bagginess of novels becomes cinematic tautness” and “Suggestiveness in novels becomes exactitude in film.” In Smokler’s Phillip K. Dick essay, the author makes a similar critique, though not about Blade Runner. Rather, he expresses the sentiment about the book itself, saying that Dick’s “larger philosophical points can come across as a bit intrusive and lectur…


Shop Talk |

Yes, Virginia, Some Agents DO Love Short Stories: a guest post by Julie Barer

by Celeste Ng

…r Award. Before becoming an agent, Julie was a bookseller at Shakespeare & Company in New York. Further reading: Want to try before you buy? We’ve featured many of Julie’s favorites right here on FWR. Browse below for tastes, then click any of the titles above to find these collections at your local indie bookstore (thus supporting authors, indie bookstores, and FWR in one fell swoop!). Read more about Kelly Link and her work Learn why Alice Munro…




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