Thursday, October 20, 2005

Mavis Gallant's Advice to Short Story Readers

Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Stories can wait.

1 comment:

Larry Keiler said...

Oops, sorry, forgot to put my name on that. I didn't say it anyway. Mavis did.