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Crafting with Ursula : Lidia Yuknavitch on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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Is There a Place of Birth or Death?

I see the revolutionary nature of moving from the spirit to the recipient. I also think it's really interesting what Christina is doing and saying that any form can be a place of birth or death, perhaps. Such an important idea to consider deeply That rearrangements and repetitions and reformations and repurposing can take the idea of, say, the carrier bag or the vessel with us into wherever we're headed next. The imagination itself is receiving a call to action, to move things around and shift them. So the bag might not look like it looked in the past as a sort of dumb way to say it, but the notion that, say, a novel, if that was the

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