Early Lessons from a Favorite Writer 07/30/2009
Peter Taylor won the Pulitzer for A Summons to Memphis, but he was at his best in his short stories. The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor is out in a new edition on August 18, and you could do worse for a desert-island selection. I worked for PT for a few years before his death in 1994. Most of what I learned from him was indirect: how he thought about stories, what revision meant to him, etc. But he did have a few tricks up his sleeve. I just wrote about one of them in my friend Christina Baker Kline's blog. CommentsLeave a Reply | AuthorI'm a writer in Washington, D.C. ArchivesNovember 2011 CategoriesAll |