Monthly Archives: August 2010

A few quotes from a recent Rumpus interview with the great Lydia Davis (italics mine)… Rumpus: There are certain words that come up again and again in your work: “anger” and “disturbance,” and to some extent “upset” and “annoyance.” Many … Continue reading →

From Don DeLillo’s short story “Baader-Meinhof,” published in The New Yorker in 2002: His cell phone rang. He dug it out of his body and spoke briefly, then sat with the thing in his hand, looking thoughtful. “I should remember … Continue reading →

(Wrote this up a while back but forgot to post…) Some interesting comments from a Big Other post that quoted an interview with Amy Hempel: Interviewer: As a writing teacher, and in the interest of all the aspiring writers reading … Continue reading →

Some stories take longer than others. I recently (well, fairly recently) “finished” two stories that I’d been working on for probably more than 10 years (though “working on” isn’t really accurate; years went by without touching them). One story found … Continue reading →