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Is there any such thing as the Great World Novel?
Nancy Lebovitz asked a very interesting question on her livejournal today. She wondered: whether there are any good nominees for the Great World Novel, and whether it’s viewed as a worthy artistic ambition. Obviously, you can’t fit the whole world into a novel (you can’t fit America in, ...
March 12, 2009: Author Nancy Kress Answers Your Questions + The Mailbag!
March 12, 2009: Author Nancy Kress Answers Your Questions + The Mailbag!
josephmallozzi.wordpress.com — Talk about a quick turnaround. I sent author Nancy Kress your questions late last night. Fast forward... seven hours to this morning when I woke up to discover an email from Nancy in my inbox. She was done! Well, a big thank you to Nancy for ... (more) March 12, 2009: Author Nancy Kress Answers Your ...
A Kress collection — short stories with depth
A Kress collection — short stories with depth
scifistandpoint.wordpress.com — I’ve made comments in the past about the limitations of the short story format, and one thing... I mentioned was the lack of room for any serious character development. Well, I have just had the experience of being proven wrong, because I’ve just read Trinity and Other Stories, an ... (more) A Kress collection — short stories with depth
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What I've been re-reading
Bluejo's Journal — My recent posts on Tor.com: Real world reading for fantasy writers. The Sky Road. Who's human anyway? Who's free? Octavia Butler's Pattern series. Octavia Butler's Survivor. A wish for something different at the frontier. Middlemarch and SF. Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. The Speed of Dark. Horizon. Philip Jose Farmer obit. The Great World Novel. Lavinia..

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