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The Art of Brevity, featuring Grant Faulkner

Memoir Nation

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The Sweet Spot - 100 Words

Grant Morrison: I was working on this big, doomed novel for like 10 years off and on. And it was really becoming heavy to keep carrying it around basically. A friend of mine posted a link to some of his father's short pieces,. Paul Strom wrote 100 100 words stories as his memoir. He said he thought of the form like taking photos in a camera that doesn't allow you to like zoom in Like something with a fixed lens.

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