Monthly Archives: April 2010

You Are Enlarged

Marisa Silver on the short story: “The short story, to me, carries the essence of what is magical about writing: that a full human being can be conjured in a sentence, that an emotional state can be suggested with two … Continue reading

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Great First Lines: Donald Ray Pollock

“My father showed me how to hurt a man one August night at the Torch Drive-in when I was seven years old.” That’s from Donald Ray Pollock’s “Real Life,” the opening story from his collection Knockemstiff. I’ve been thinking about … Continue reading

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