But what if you're shopping, just cruising right along, doing your thing at Walmart and you reach for something you wish to purchase and there, next to the paper towels and plastic flatware you find a PYTHON. (I have no idea if the snake was discovered in "picnic supplies"; that was...
This Paper Boat –in form, in diction, in tone, in subject matter. I think it was Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle who recommended it to me. It showed me the power of plain prose and diction, and the power of arrangement and organisation. Like me, Burger is invested in interrogating...
Sara wrote me to point out that Vander has sisters inThree Weeksand no sisters inFour Nights. Ouch! I just wrote to my publisher and changed his mention of sisters playing with paper dolls to cousins—but in case you’re reading an earlier edition, imagine young cousins busily cutting out...