Tobias Wolff On Short Stories
“(T)he only real people left who write short stories now are people who write literary short stories, if you will. And they are a little more demanding than the average novel; they don’t tend to have neat tied-up endings, which most people tend to gravitate toward. And I think a lot of people, even the ones with those famously shortened attention spans, kind of like the idea of entering a world and staying in it for a week or so, and not having to get used to a new set of characters every time they finish 15 pages.”
— Tobias Wolff in an excellent interview over at The Morning News in which he also discusses how writers face “a certain marginality,” George Pelicanos and lots more.
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Seth Fischer's writing has appeared in Guernica Magazine, is forthcoming in Pank, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has won an honorable mention in The Glimmer Train Fiction Open. He is Sunday Editor at this here web site, and he’s the founding editor of www.splintergeneration.com. He lives in San Francisco and has a day job where he sits in a cubicle not too far from an albino alligator. Reach him at seth.fischer (at) gmail.com or @sethfischer.
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