Notable NYC: 10/20–10/26
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: Alice Mattison
Notable NYC: 9/22–9/28
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/15–9/21
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Mattison
Alice Mattison discusses her newest book, The Kite and the String, a meditation on her lifelong journey through the craft of writing, the joys of teaching writing, and the importance of community.
...moreWhat Makes a Story a Story
Over at the Atlantic, Joe Fassler talks to Alice Mattison about how Grace Paley’s short stories encouraged her to write fiction. Mattison recalls: From Paley, I learned that I could write about lives and feelings like those I knew.
...morePulling the Strings of Coincidence
Coincidence often gives fiction its chance to mean something. Over at Lit Hub, in an excerpt from her new book The Kite and the String, Alice Mattison walks us through brilliantly executed coincidences in E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End, Flannery O’Connor’s story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” and Andre Dubus’s story “The Winter Father.” She […]
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The Kite and the String by Alice Mattison
Shawn Andrew Mitchell reviews The Kite and the String by Alice Mattison today in Rumpus Books.
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