Stories We Love: “The Expelled,” by Samuel Beckett
by Amber Wheeler Bacon
Amber Wheeler Bacon on learning to read Beckett’s “The Expelled.”
Amber Wheeler Bacon on learning to read Beckett’s “The Expelled.”
“It isn’t solace Emily and Eva are seeking, but a way to transform their pain.” Amber Wheeler Bacon on Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” and “Tell Me a Riddle.”
“What exactly did Carver do to make his character’s isolation so palpable that I felt it physically?” Amber Wheeler Bacon on Raymond Carver’s deeply affecting “Are You a Doctor?”
“I love when a writer asks me to forgive a parent despite the pain they’ve caused their child”: Amber Wheeler Bacon on empathizing with bad parents in fiction.
