Addition by Omission: An Interview Grant Faulkner by Curtis Smith
Flash communicates via caesuras and crevices.
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.
Authenticity is all. You will be drawn to the serial killer if his character is complex enough.
Contradiction is at the heart of successful characters, plots, metaphors, symbols, irony, paradoxes, oxymorons, and synesthesia.
Age can give a writer new strength, freedom, and, with any luck, compassion.
I subscribe to the notion that a poem should ask difficult questions, whether or not it can answer them.
I thought that authors writing in a personal way about a formative work of literature was a great idea.
I’m just writing about these ideas, these characters, and my lack of a clear moral directive became the subject as much as the animals, the crime and the humor are the subject.
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.
The biggest challenge for me was trying to pull all those various threads back together again in a way that seemed more or less realistic and also satisfying.