Scars and Legacies: An Interview with Jolene McIlwain by Curtis Smith
As far as my place, the fields, forests, creeks, as well as the people here, wear the scars and carry the legacies of what came before.
As far as my place, the fields, forests, creeks, as well as the people here, wear the scars and carry the legacies of what came before.
How a text is structured has something profound to say about its author’s vision.
So much of this first novel felt like fighting my way through an unmapped jungle with a butter knife.
Flash communicates via caesuras and crevices.
With the passage of time comes increased objectivity and the emotional distance required to be your own ruthless editor.
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.
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