Modern redemption in a small New Mexican town
Norton W.W. & Company, Inc., 2021. A common but useless question in writing-craft interviews asks how budding fiction writers distinguish between ideas for short stories and those for novels. In the early stages, how can a writer know whether a character needs 8,000 words or 800,000? The answer is that there is no answer. Plenty of novels — and this is not an insult — could be compressed into stories; plenty of stories have the intellectual and emotional heft of novels. Some novels start their lives as stories, then refuse to stop growing. Kirstin Valdez Quade’s excellent debut novel, ...
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