Archive for May, 2007



Jean Thompson on favors writers ask and are asked

Not only did David Sedaris include one of Jean Thompson’s short stories in his anthology of personal favorites, he was so smitten with her first collection that he sold copies on his own book tour. Proselytizing feels effortless when you love a work of fiction. But at least as often, writers are asked to blurb things they’re not wild about . . .

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