On Regional Literature
How can we get writers from different regions to be read elsewhere and get the attention they need from the big media centers? What themes would a writer have to address to make our regional literatures national?
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
He can digress, delineate, rant, rave, ponder, speculate, ruminate, fulminate, and bring the story to a screeching halt if it suits his whimsy
