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.
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Posts Tagged: The Kite and the String
Pulling 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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