"What a story is, is devious. It pretends……" — Joy Williams

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages… - Joy Williams
"What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes..."

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