Writing from Experience
Shirley Hazzard & all the strangeness of the mind
Good morning, friends.
In the last newsletter, I wrote a bit about Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus, and how A) it’s amazing, and B) it’s such a good example of what I was reading from Shirley Jackson at the time, regarding the so-called economy or necessity of plot and writing. (Sorry about the two Shirleys thing! I promise it was coincidence but …
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