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I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.
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I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one genre or another.
David Means
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Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.
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Everyone in my family still lives in Kalamazoo.
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Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.
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There is this idea of 'north,' and if you're from Michigan and you wandered the Upper Peninsula, you know what it feels like. The sky has a particular vibe, a coldness, stretching into the upper reaches of Canada.
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I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in a different way: they're highly charged, a slightly newer form, and inherently more contemporary.
David Means