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  • interesting and blessed day…

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    interesting day… i interviewed novelist, Thrity Umrigar, on her latest work, The Weight of Heaven. such a nice person. then i wrote several blogs about her. south asian writers have so influenced me–Jhumpa Lahiri, Lavanya Sankaran, Manil Suri, and of course, Thrity Umrigar.. i wish more black and african americans read their work. we could…

  • Planning Your Novel: My Notebook

    Planning Your Novel: My Notebook

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    I have a notebook for every novel I write. I make notes on short stories I write, but novels deserve an entire notebook. My novels, as with all stories I write, begin in my head. Since earning my MFA I give much thought to my novels before I write, sometimes as much 3 years or…

  • Dialogue: More than Conversing

    Dialogue: More than Conversing

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    Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn’t know but the other character does know. –Eudora Welty Good dialogue accomplishes 4 things in fiction: reveals and develops character delivers backstory drives Plot directs pace But there are more…

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

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    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

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    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…

  • “Young Lions”

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    Edward P. Jones’ Young Lions opens with twenty-four-year old Caesar Matthews reading a note from his girlfriend, Carol, with whom he lives. Carol’s note, taped to a carton of milk in the refrigerator, and as on so many previous occasions, states “…she loves him with all her heart.” (p. 55) Manny calls. The owner of…

  • “Requiem on a Dark Night”

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    In Edward P. Jones’ A Dark Night the not so apparent protagonist, Ida Garrett, arrives at the apartment of her neighbor, Carmena Boone, and finds another neighbor, Beatrice Atwell for whom she has been searching. Beatrice, Carmena and the two other elderly women, the two Frazier sisters are waiting for the minister, Reverend Dr. Sawyer,…

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