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4.FM: You’ve pretty much built your reputation writing short stories. What do you like best about this genre? Why do you prefer it to the novel or longer pieces...
...Well, I have one novella, but you know, short stories and short-short stories are what come naturally to me. And I think it has partly to do with the way you experience life, or a given day. I’m not big on cause and effect. It always seems contrived to me on the page. Well, not always, but often, at least when I do it. So I like moments. Something small shifted there and that’s interesting. I like moments that effect a change, that accumulate...
...mentioned, your first short story was “In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried.” How did the idea for this story come about...
10.FM: Wow. Speaking of this short story, it’s one of the most anthologized works in the last quarter century. Al Jolson was considered to be one of the world’s greatest entertainers. He sang a lot of jazz and blues and influenced a bunch of famous musicians and performers, including Judy Garland and Bob Dylan, who once referred to him as “somebody whose life I can feel...
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