We didn't touch on Carver in our wonderful mentoring conversation - so it's a thrill to find a shared love and awe for his work here, now, through your own spare and very powerful prose. I thought when I first began reading your work - in your mentoring application and then your first few pieces here - that you are in the lineage of Less…
We didn't touch on Carver in our wonderful mentoring conversation - so it's a thrill to find a shared love and awe for his work here, now, through your own spare and very powerful prose. I thought when I first began reading your work - in your mentoring application and then your first few pieces here - that you are in the lineage of Lessing, Duras, Ernaux: those women who write the full range of emotions and experiences, but with an economy of language. Now, too, I see that what I prize in Carver in part of what you bring to story-telling too.
I love how you used the prompt here to reflect on his writing, your life.
We didn't touch on Carver in our wonderful mentoring conversation - so it's a thrill to find a shared love and awe for his work here, now, through your own spare and very powerful prose. I thought when I first began reading your work - in your mentoring application and then your first few pieces here - that you are in the lineage of Lessing, Duras, Ernaux: those women who write the full range of emotions and experiences, but with an economy of language. Now, too, I see that what I prize in Carver in part of what you bring to story-telling too.
I love how you used the prompt here to reflect on his writing, your life.
Here is your link to it in the story archive:
https://thecureforsleep.com/november-issue-reading/#kerrywhitley
Txx