First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Arts:Books
Jill McCorkle is the author of four short story collections and seven novels including the New York Timesbestseller Life After Life. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Garden and Gun, The Atlantic, and other publications. She is currently a faculty member at the Bennington College Writing Seminars and is affiliated with the MFA program at North Carolina State University. Her new short story collection is called Old Crimes.
We talked about nostalgia, regret, epigraphs, Tennessee Williams, moments of grace in fiction, blindspots, when the reader knows more than the characters in stories, creating suspense, and linked stories.
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