
Diane Williams: “How High? – That High”
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The Casualness of Stories
I think of another writer who at least at first wrote stories that people could hardly recognize or describe as stories. That was quite some time ago I think in the 70s Donald Barthomy but his stories you can't ignore the music because they don't seem to be written in English or American syntax. He seems to be inventing his sentence what will be the Barthomy sentence as he goes along. They are revealing themselves as casual appropriations discovered as the story goes along and I think from what you're saying part of the excitement may be that these things are revealed to you as you write. It's an internal music that is special to you. The stories have remained so solidly your own. How
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