I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent.
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actua… - Lucy Corin
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actua…
- Lucy Corin
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just wh… - Lucy Corin
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just wh…
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible i… - Lucy Corin
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible i…
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe. - Lucy Corin
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I'v… - Lucy Corin
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I'v…
For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if ot… - Lucy Corin
For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if ot…
To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it. - Lucy Corin
To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.
I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will… - Lucy Corin
I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will…
Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous. - Lucy Corin
Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.
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