1. 17:38 11th Sep 2012

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    Stories by Diane Williams - The Brooklyn Rail

    …at the Brooklyn Rail.

    Also, see this fine interview at the Killings blog:

    You write stories that vaporise narratives and characters. You were a lecturer at Bard College, Syracuse University and the Centre for Fiction in New York. What principles of storytelling, of character and narrative, did you teach your students?

    D.W.: Principles for the writing of prose fiction – hmmm. Language is the performative medium. We compose using sound and meaning. We explore how to create drama by way of well-made sentences. In class, we examine what tactics are necessary to support the implicit request: Please listen to this!

    We conjure an ideal text – one that may have the chance to perdure. We assess the relative significance and complexity of the subject – the architecture of the sentences – their musical properties. Our ambition is nothing less than the deep opening and the revelation of the human heart. This is not a report on such an event – this is the event.

    (Interview conducted by A.S. Patric.)

     
    1. loudsoundsaccumulated reblogged this from mulberryroad and added:
      certain she learned this from Lish…
    2. treymoody reblogged this from mulberryroad and added:
      See this fine interview at the Killings blog: (Interview conducted by A.S. Patric.)
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