You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell.
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something ab… - Lorin Stein
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something ab…
- Lorin Stein
I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life. - Lorin Stein
I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.
It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and y… - Lorin Stein
It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and y…
Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite… - Lorin Stein
Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite…
If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more trut… - Lorin Stein
If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more trut…
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. - Lorin Stein
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.
The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online. - Lorin Stein
The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the con… - Lorin Stein
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the con…
I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading. - Lorin Stein
I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.
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