
Anthony Doerr on CLOUD CUCKOO LAND
Poured Over
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Do You Miss Writing Short Stories?
I decided on this one going to use my forties to when my intellect was functional, as functional as it can be anyway. I have this idea for a funny, almost silly, short story. Not silly, but something that's only about 18 pages. So finishing things has a real nice feeling sometimes. That's what i miss most about short stories. And theni'll course it all the light i was trying and maybe called cuckoo land is my latest attempt, and i'll keep going. You know, denis overby from the new york times, writers like that who can translate complex language, those communicators can save lives. The way we are seeing it right
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