Love this Emily! I’m new to substack and am already grieving the time I’ve missed! Thanks for listening in to my conversation with Allayne and sharing so many wonderful writing truths here. I’m inspired to start writing short stories again!
I haven’t read Maeve Brennan before (though now I want to, thanks Em like my TBR pile needs to be *any* higher 🙄), but I have read Claire-Louise Bennett and I think you’d love her too. Pond is... well, it’s Pond. To say it’s ‘like’ anything is pointless, and missing the point of its utter marvellousness.
It was Brian Dillon in Suppose A Sentence that got me into her. Her second one, Checkout 19, is reasonably near the top of the TBR. (For variable definitions of ‘reasonably’ and ‘near’, obvsly.)
Such an entertaining and informative post - I'm sharing it with my writers group :-)
Love this Emily! I’m new to substack and am already grieving the time I’ve missed! Thanks for listening in to my conversation with Allayne and sharing so many wonderful writing truths here. I’m inspired to start writing short stories again!
I haven’t read Maeve Brennan before (though now I want to, thanks Em like my TBR pile needs to be *any* higher 🙄), but I have read Claire-Louise Bennett and I think you’d love her too. Pond is... well, it’s Pond. To say it’s ‘like’ anything is pointless, and missing the point of its utter marvellousness.
It was Brian Dillon in Suppose A Sentence that got me into her. Her second one, Checkout 19, is reasonably near the top of the TBR. (For variable definitions of ‘reasonably’ and ‘near’, obvsly.)