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You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.
Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
