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News & ArtsFriday, October 30, 2009
Books Talking With Lydia Davis
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:30 PM
...at a time when I was stuck in my writing, a few years later, I happened to read the stories—what he calls poems—of Russell Edson. The volume of his that I read contains short, mostly domestic tales in which not all the protagonists are human. It also helped me that not all the pieces were successful—I could see how to attempt something and not mind failing. I set myself the exercise of writing two paragraph-long stories each day.
Give it a look over your lunch.
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