Tag: Classics
Flannery O’Connor and the Concrete
Fiction operates through the senses, not through abstractions.
Keep reading...Hemingway and the Iceberg
True narrative power comes from the seven-eighths of the story left underwater.
Keep reading...T.S. Eliot and the Still Point
At the still point of the turning world, the most profound stories are born.
Keep reading...Edgar Allan Poe and the Single Effect
A story should be a perfectly sealed vessel for a single emotion.
Keep reading...Bram Stoker and the Power of the Document
There is a unique voyeuristic thrill in reading someone else’s mail.
Keep reading...Shirley Jackson and the Geometry of Fear
True horror is found not in the shadows, but in the misalignment of the familiar.
Keep reading...Virginia Woolf and the Internal Clock
Time in the mind does not move in minutes; it moves in memories and sensations.
Keep reading...George Orwell and the Plain English
Clarity of language is a prerequisite for clarity of thought.
Keep reading...Albert Camus and the Clarity of the Sun
In the heat of the Algerian sun, Camus found a terrifying, beautiful clarity.
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