![]() I don’t mind reading those stories at all, you know, starting with Joyce, who was the master of the quiet epiphanic ending. ![]() For whatever reason, that stuff has never been my bag as a writer. I’ve tried to write the quiet epiphanic story where you come to the end with a kind of wan realization about something and isn’t that pretty? And you know, death is imminent, let’s just all move on as the passing light crosses the yard or whatever. There are so many writers who can do that kind of quiet epiphany thing at the end. Tom Bissell: Yeah, like my stories tend to rush to the explosive, to the explosion point. I wanted to ask you, if that sounded realistic to you? And I think it’s also really interesting that these elements were in a lot of these stories that you wrote over such a long period of time. Mitzi Rapkin: In this collection, I felt an undercurrent in many of these stories that had to do with violence and/or confrontation. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! In this episode, Mitzi talks to Tom Bissell about his short story collection Creative Types. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, First Draft celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in. ![]() First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. ![]()
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