Feb 28 2006

participate actively in the experience

i spent my lonely, sad pathetic lunch sans Al & Seamus eating leftover stir-fry and reading the NY Times Profile of Deborah Eisenberg (which i found out about on bookslut).

the article is a bit depressing about the state of short stories in american fiction, but Eisenberg has this lovely quote that i am gonna write down somewhere important, “I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories,” she said. “The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.”

Tags: Books, Deborah Eisenberg, Writing

Posted on Tue, 28 February 2006 at 1:40 pm

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love, thick and dark as Alaga syrup well at least today won’t be known as the 3rd most boring day that ever happened

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