751. Lou Mathews
Otherppl with Brad Listi
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Teaching Fiction Writing
i feel like a person has to do the work. There are no short cuts. I used to tart every one of my classes using essentially the bible two essays she wrote called writing short stories and the nature and aim of fiction. Then we read a good man is hard to find, which remains probably the best teaching tool i know. But what she says is that at one point she was asked by a reporter life magazine tat who was worried that all these new schools that were designed to develop writers, the work shop at iowa, were somehow hindering the natural evolution of writing. She said: "I agree with flannery o'connor and and am"
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