The difference in research for novels was in the details: How was a room lit? Did they sell roast chickens in Paris in 1897? How did you cut a cigar? Well, real life experience might have answered the last question, but at midnight, it was Wikipedia. Continue reading
by Jane Hammons
Pope revealed that she “had always wanted to write fiction” but had “got[ten] on the academic train and never got off.” In going through files from when she was developing some of the first Women’s Studies courses, she would come across attempts she had made at short stories. Continue reading
