On the Contrary: An Interview with David Jauss by Curtis Smith
Contradiction is at the heart of successful characters, plots, metaphors, symbols, irony, paradoxes, oxymorons, and synesthesia.
Contradiction is at the heart of successful characters, plots, metaphors, symbols, irony, paradoxes, oxymorons, and synesthesia.
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Don’t Look at Me is my reading of her. Dickinson is vast.
It was most important to tell my family’s story—the story of one life lost to the pandemic.
Compression calls for a unique way of creating stories that don’t always follow traditional plots and story arcs.
I thought that authors writing in a personal way about a formative work of literature was a great idea.
Wisdom is only true wisdom when it isn’t merely a reassuring echo of one’s own views.
The boy’s breadth of knowledge concerns his father. The child’s obsessions, his tape-recorder memory.
responsibility can be a restraint that gives shape to your art, but it also can be a release, enlarging perception, illuminating what had been unseen.
As I write, I follow the voice of the narrator through these moments and specifics, always paying close attention to the energy of sentences and where they lead.