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Review: WRITING HARD STORIES by Melanie Brooks
Author: Guest Reviewer | Categories: Book Reviews, Critical Essays, Nonfiction, Writing Advice No comments
Sharply written, these intimate and insightful exchanges dispel the myth that perhaps we all, writers or not, have come to believe about our own narratives, our own lives: “The worst story that we can tell ourselves is that we are alone.”
THAT LIT, LIT LIFE (with global characteristics) 9 (of 14)
So there I was, my head in Colm Tóibín’s Ireland (more, later) while chattering about Mo Yan’s China on BBC World TV. It was Friday, October 12, 2012 at 0615 hours in Central, Hong Kong. An ungodly hour (up at 0430 hours to reach their studios on time) to