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Mining Tension in Fiction, featuring Gish Jen

Memoir Nation

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What I Like About Gish's Storytelling

Grant: What I most like about Gish's storytelling is the many layers. There's so much underneath what she's writing. And when a skilled writer is offering up a story or collection like these, then you're kind of decoding. In the title story, thank you, Mr. Nixon, the protagonist again and again talks about what they're not supposed to say.

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