![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit many, many times. I reread Lynda Barry’s Cruddy, and poetry by Natalie Diaz and Morgan Parker and Kaveh Akbar. I reread Terry Pratchett and Laurie Colwin and Stephen King and Tananarive Due’s novel The Between. I reread Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, and Laird Barron’s horror collections, and Mariana Enriquez’s collections, too. James, and Diana Wynne Jones, and Grace Paley, and Joan Aiken. I reread Peter Straub’s novels and short stories. For a long time, I thought that real writers settled down to do their work first thing, and so I must be a dilettante not to be able to get anything done without finding it excruciating. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out why I hate writing so much, when it’s also the thing that I want most to do-it turns out a large piece of this is that I mostly hate writing when I’m attempting to do it between waking up to around 2 pm. Link is also the author of the collections Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters, and took time out of her tricksy short fiction writing to share with us her thoughts on how to approach a book, and the advice and soundtracks that fuel her work. In her latest short story collection, White Cat, Black Dog, MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link reinvents seven fairytales into modern, realist short stories about, for example, an aging billionaire choosing a successor, and a house-sitting gig that goes awry. ![]()
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