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.
Dammit, Rob, you know I can't resist "a startlingly original debut that slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving"! Sold.
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 :-)
That's very gratifying to hear, thanks so much Ramona.
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!
Welcome, Zanni! Substack has been such a nutritious online influence this year, I hope you'll love it.
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.
Dammit, Rob, you know I can't resist "a startlingly original debut that slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving"! Sold.
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.)
I like the sound of that, too. And bookmarked this to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtP7CkNyCknow Her reading of Family Walls was really wonderful.
Oooh. And yes, I really need to up my podcast game, and will start with the NY Fiction one.