Nora Pierce’s first novel, The Insufficiency of Maps, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a finalist for the NCIBA Book of the Year award. She was a Wallace Stegner fellow and lecturer at Stanford University and a PEN/Emerging Voices Fellow.
The prolific Stephen Dixon sits down with The Rumpus to discuss the endings of short stories, beginning with good lines, and his evasive history with editors.