“I write a creative senior thesis, five short stories. I name it Small Fires. There’s a collection of poetry by Raymond Carver called Fires. These are smaller ones, I guess.”
Rumpus contributor Eric Puchner, author of today’s essay about titling your work, shares the moments in his literary life that brought him to his debut novel, Model Home.
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