This is the most brilliantly woven and resolved essay series I’ve ever read. In three parts all of the characters (real and fictional) and publications and plots fan out in every direction, seemingly to never be heard from again, but then are all recalled to the same milieu and settled into a unified (if still disparate) whole. I won’t say it’s perfect but I can’t say why it isn’t.
Thanks Dave! For several years I have wrestled with this piece as a single 5000-word essay that nobody wanted to publish. Then I realized that one of my goals here at Natural Stories is to play with storytelling formats. So I took a chance with the series. I'm glad to hear it (mostly) worked! :)
This is the most brilliantly woven and resolved essay series I’ve ever read. In three parts all of the characters (real and fictional) and publications and plots fan out in every direction, seemingly to never be heard from again, but then are all recalled to the same milieu and settled into a unified (if still disparate) whole. I won’t say it’s perfect but I can’t say why it isn’t.
Not mostly. Totally.
Thanks Dave! For several years I have wrestled with this piece as a single 5000-word essay that nobody wanted to publish. Then I realized that one of my goals here at Natural Stories is to play with storytelling formats. So I took a chance with the series. I'm glad to hear it (mostly) worked! :)