Happy Birthday, Sharon Olds
“There’s no method. There’s no formula. If you really proceed a sentence at a time, if you pay attention to the sentence you just wrote and look to it for the clue for what to do to the next sentence,...
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INTERVIEWER You’ve said you can’t bear to have a bad sentence in front of you. HEMPEL Yes. I still can’t. Makes me ill. —Amy Hempel, the Art of Fiction No. 176
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David Moore of Bing & Ruth. New York has felt like a second home since my parents first took me there as a teen in the early eighties. I grew up in rural coastal North Carolina, but the Mets...
View ArticleNothing Is Like Anything Else: On Amy Hempel
This week marks the release of Amy Hempel’s Sing to It, her first book in over a decade. In the first story I submitted to a writing workshop, I included, in my naive twenty-something state, a scene in...
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