S17, Ep6 Diana Evans: the bestselling author on writing routines, dealing with her inner critic and living life to the fullest
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Drive to Achieve
I think there's a lot more commercial respect for novels. I don't think short stories are well in this country anyway. There's such beauty in the short story form and my love of poetry as well is connected to the desire to master the short story because you can do so much with it. You mentioned that some of your favorite writers are short story writers. Who are they? Oh God so many. Grace Paley, I love her stories. She's one of Sadie Smith's favorite writers as well. Raymond Carver, I meet in Sarah Hall's stories at the moment. At James Baldwin's short stories Langston Hughes. A Jamaican American writer called Alexia Arth
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