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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
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“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
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On the Southern Literary Trail
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Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more
New Yorker Short Fiction
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Every week we read the new story in the New Yorker. No long term commitment. Just about 15 pages of reading a week.
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