Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott
Joanna Scottis an American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester...
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CountryUnited States of America
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There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.
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In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
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When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.