Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere? Votes: 3
Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story. Votes: 0
In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart. Votes: 0