you think about it.” The story of the narrator’s life proceeds, integrated with other characters and ... that it is a series of anecdotes about the priest and the “you” until the failed writer falls into ... permanence or narrative integrity that goes beyond their literal level.” When it occurs to the fictional ...
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constructs, not givens, boundaries begin to dissolve. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that it wasn’t so long ... “innovative”? NW: It’s interesting to me that the essays that talked about transgression were in some ways the ... Margot, in which you write, “Convention is what we talk about when we talk about craft.” Yet every piece ...
gestured toward or avoided altogether. I love them. It’s not that I think they’re easy to write—they ... Garth Greenwell Tuesday, December 15, 2015 Craft Essay I feel a little out of place on a panel ... about memoir, since I’ve almost exclusively published my work in prose as fiction. But it’s true that ...
travelogue Sans Soleil (1983). An intentionally ambiguous essay film, it is voiced by a narrator who relays ... when you think you know what the piece is about—neighborhoods, television, cat temples—it becomes about ... does, I think, what Adorno says the essay wants to do, ”it tries to render the transient eternal.” ...
letter to his child that You will be born into a war: I think no one can now prevent it. I must hope ... this be your work too, when your time comes. Farewell. Do not restart 201 Issue 80 page ... Page 201 from Issue 80 Barth's project in anagrammatic terms, one could say that the ...
Elyssa East Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Craft Essay “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite ... passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the ... recording, not thinking” one. I wanted to be active and critically engaged while still mostly hovering in the ...
sense of narrative also began to change. It is not always easy or convenient to welcome shifts in ... is the deadline. Maybe not every book is written this way, but THRESHOLES was: it was due, and ... good hands but also lost in them, slipping through, being caught again. It’s not a reading experience ...
direct narration, while the other constructs its framework out of seemingly disjointed and often ... interesting about the juxtaposition of word and image is that the textual narrative is quite direct—we engage ... An Introduction to Video Essays The two videos in our winter suite are, on the surface, ...
who does not understand the construction of the machine cannot conceive that it is not the chip... but ... Page 126 from Issue 80 traveler from the nineteenth century is assured that this problem has been ... were not adaptable to Chekhov's specific problems and those that were could be used only with ...
narrator, might not be publication. This writer is exploring, and doesn’t seem focused on a goal—it almost ... Anne Elliott Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Craft Essay When I encounter direct address in fiction, my ... narrates the self-destruction of its protagonist and implicates the reader at the same time. As veiled ...