When I make a list of all the first lines, what do I see? What kind of landscape is being built? Ditto for last lines. Is each story taking the reader someplace new? Where do I feel myself getting bored? Where does the reader get taken one too many times? Is … [Read more...]
The Buzz About
Thanks a ton to The Buzz About for this generous early review of ISLE. … [Read more...]
…the novel duplicates at a supremely fascinating level the imperfections of the human subjectivity that produces it. In other words, to say that what gives a novel its force is that it feels very human, and why it feels human is because it’s imperfect, it’s contradictory, it has … [Read more...]
https://lauravandenberg.com/2013/07/02/the-novel-duplicates-at-a-supremely-fascinating/
There are probably a few other people out there who’ll love what you write as much as you do. You just have to find them.” – Etgar Keret … [Read more...]
https://lauravandenberg.com/2013/07/02/there-are-probably-a-few-other-people-out-there/
Short Story Of The Week
"In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" by Amy Hempel. One of the greats. “What seems dangerous often is not—black snakes, for example, or clear-air turbulence. While things that just lie there, like this beach, are loaded with jeopardy. A yellow dust rising from the … [Read more...]