“Linked stories can allow you to create a portrait of a character or a place, or both, in a much different way from a novel. In story collections, the connections can be looser, characters can transform in surprising and sometimes jarring ways.”
Thomas H. McNeely interviewed by Malena Watrous for Stanford’s The Writer’s Spotlight.
Read the interview here:
https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/writing-certificate/the-writers-spotlight
Purchase Pictures of the Shark here:
https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680032710/pictures-of-the-shark/
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