“I yearn for the blueprint, but there is no blueprint. If there were a blueprint, an MFA would be a law degree.” Loved Sidik Fofana’s craft essay “Stumbling Along” in The Sewanee Review ➡️ thesewaneereview.com/articles/stu...
“If you want to lift a heavy barbell, you can either bench press it or use a forklift. But if you want to build physical strength, you must lift the barbell yourself. Your brain is no different.” Loved this in @thetransmitter.bsky.socialwww.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...
“Her devoted readers seemed to blithely accept that her stories, with their grisly leitmotifs, were the product of a saintly lady who was making it all up, out of empathy.”
