Under Texture: An Interview with Lance Olsen by Curtis Smith
How a text is structured has something profound to say about its author’s vision.
How a text is structured has something profound to say about its author’s vision.
Apocalyptic narratives are both ancient and very of this moment—they exist across time, media and culture
Don’t Look at Me is my reading of her. Dickinson is vast.
Writing a love letter to New York was what initiated the whole project.
It was most important to tell my family’s story—the story of one life lost to the pandemic.
My writing is always heavily influenced by whatever I’m reading at the time so I push myself to “read above my grade level” in order to grow as a writer.
Revision is the best part for me, the most fun, after the first draft is completed. It takes me longer to write a story now than it did at the beginning of my career—but my work has grown more precise and careful as a result.
I didn’t realize I was writing a book of stories until very late in the game.
Just because we do not fit the majority, it should not mean we are any lesser.
So much of writing is learning to tolerate the difficulties of the process, and learning to revise.