Writer. Contributing Editor at The Discarded Image. Digital Content Strategist. Here's where I publicly explore the books I'm reading, the projects I'm working on, and other current interests. Well said: learning to love discontinuity
Novelist and short fiction writer Tessa Hadley on the exhilarating discontinuity of short stories compared to novels:
There’s something more discontinuous about our reading relationship with short stories (not more strenuous, though, because reading good novels can be just as strenuous, demanding). At the end of each story we’re thrown out again, out of the containing sea of illusion, into the dry air of our own awareness outside the book. We have to pick ourselves up and shake ourselves off and ready ourselves for another plunge, into a new story, a new place.
Read the rest of her essay “A Writer’s View” at Story.
