You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.
My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me. - Rob Roberge
My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.
- Rob Roberge
I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes. - Rob Roberge
I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years. - Rob Roberge
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yours… - Rob Roberge
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yours…
I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know the… - Rob Roberge
I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know the…
The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us… - Rob Roberge
The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us…
I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people. - Rob Roberge
I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I … - Rob Roberge
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I …
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader. - Rob Roberge
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.
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