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Tag Archives: Jessica Levine
A Prismatic View: Talking Real Life and Fiction at the American Library in Paris
by Sion Dayson
[A]s writers, we must find the process that speaks to us individually. . . . Whether our stories are lifted from autobiography or invented from the deep recesses of our minds, we are attempting to understand life. Continue reading
Living Time, Writing Time: Braiding Two Time Strands
by Jessica Levine
I’ve found that the doubled structure is most likely to be successful when the later point in time has its own forward-moving story. . . . Thus, rule one for works with two time strands: each point in time must generate its own plot. Continue reading
Living Time, Writing Time: Narrating the Fourth Dimension in Fiction
by Jessica Levine
Because I wanted to write novels and knew that writers draw on their memories, the idea of not remembering years of one’s life, the major as well as the minor events, terrified me—an enormous loss not only of experience but also of creative raw material. Continue reading
Messing Up the Drawing Room: Wharton, Olsen, and the Quest for Validation
by Jessica Levine
In retrospect, I see the nine years I spent working on my Ph.D. as a similar kind of detour, a quest for a lineage that might give me a right to speak. Continue reading
