(or I have to change this thing up or my head might explode)
It was a great idea: read everything ever written by a single author.
It may be the best idea ever, really (right up there with Nutella or White Chocolate Peanut Butter) BUT it takes a greater person to accomplish such a feat.
Maybe one day I will be able to say I've read all F. Scott has written, but not this year (or next year or the year after that)...
Instead I'm going to continue this blog but with a twist--I am going to include other authors. More short stories written by said authors...it will be more about the short story as a literary form.
Yay Short Stories!
This way I can include classics and "new ones" and all the stuff in between...like the sandwich I want to consume right now....I don't have the two delicious spreads mentioned above--but I'm sure I can find SOMETHING to nom nom nom.
~~J
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I sooo hear ya!
ReplyDeleteI haven't been able to pick Atwood's Negotiating With the Dead in over a month? 2 months? It literally sits on my passenger seat floor because, at one point, I realized it was making my purse too heavy with all of the /other/ books I was reading that I excommunicated it to my car floor. (It's there along with the Norton Anthology of Poetry).
I would love to continue the project, but a part of me wonders whether there is some other author out there that I would feel /really driven/ to read all of their stuff. Like, is Atwood really my fit for this? She was just a random author I chose, but maybe there is my author-->blog soulmate out there?
Who knows.
Right now, I'm ingesting a ton of novellas. I went to this awesome workshop at AWP (which you totally need to go to) about the form and it just really impassioned me to want to read all I could and write one myself (maybe).
So I dig your story idea. I'm taking a graduate workshop with Holladay in the fall and I haven't written a short story since 2008, so I'm sort of nervous, but I think doing some good reading this summer will help.
Since you told me that May is National Short Story month, I'm dusting off some of my collections and reading.
ReplyDeleteYour most recent post about the couple at the airport read very much like a short story. It could almost stand alone and be one! You have a great "eye" and poetic flow.
I hope to go to AWP next year (since I'll be a MFA'er)--I wish I was taking another Holladay class...You'll do just fine.
~~J