Unlike other genres (think sonnet; think most film), [the novel] is a genre that doesn’t really know what it is and yet is committed to finding out, that is always trying to figure and break out of its own generic constraints.
It resonates that my deeper dive into realism is the result of the growing urgency in everyday life.
One of the reasons I adore fiction is that it can do two things no other art can: deep consciousness and extended, textured language.
A novel should be more than its page-by-page performance.
Every story has a slight twinge of unreality to it, but at the same time hums with an inescapable, gritty humanity.
This is not a collection of stories overly dependent on plot; these are stories that attain their power through description, through syntax.
The Suicide of Claire Bishop by Carmiel Banasky 384 pages Dzanc Books, 2015 $24.95 ISBN 978-1938103087 Have you ever had that moment when you have to take a step back […]
Jen Grow’s debut collection, My Life as a Mermaid, won the 2012 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition. She is the Fiction Editor of Little Patuxent Review. Her short fiction and nonfiction have […]
If I Knew the Way, I’d Take You Home by Dave Housley 2015, Dzanc Books 208 Pages, $14.95 ISBN-978-1936873661 How do you feel about music? Do you think […]
My Life As a Mermaid, and Other Stores by Jen Grow 2015, Dzanc Books 216 Pages, $14.95 ISBN-13 978-1938103032 Heart beating in your ears, hidden away from the […]
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