Sublime

Perhaps the snobbery has something to do with their association with children and women. Or it could be that, lacking any single author, they discomfit a culture enchanted with the myth of the heroic artist. Or perhaps their tropes are so familiar that they are easily misunderstood as cliché. Possibly their collapsed world of real and unreal

Since almost every word Wolfe wrote was autobiographical, nearly all his characters based closely on real people, there had always been a risk of prosecution.

“the five Rs” of creative nonfiction: Real Life, Reflection, Research, Reading, and ’Riting.

Writing that truly “stands out” always lives in a fundamentally different category.

L’écrivain ne se contente de rien. Il dévore. Oui, plume à la main, il se régale du plus odieux des carnages. Surtout les siens. Il témoigne, certes. Moins avouable : il sauve sa peau. C’est un racontar qui a de la chance. Au fond, un auteur n’a jamais de quoi être vraiment fier. Écrire, au mieux, c’est voler. Doué, prédestiné sans doute, Aaron ne

extreme, exclusive, almost a one-man genre.

Vincent recommended A. L. Snijders, who had been writing very short stories for many years with, at that time, more than 1,500 to his credit and still counting. He had in fact invented his own term for what he wrote — zkv’s, short for zeer korte verhalen, or “very short stories.” He had recently been awarded a major prize. Vincent sent a story by