Friday, December 1, 2017

Joseph O'Neill on when a story is finished

Joseph O'Neill in a New Yorker interview about his story "The Sinking of the Houston":

"The interpretation of motive really is the reader’s prerogative. In any case, I’m not really sure why the father does he what he does. A basic sense of mystification is precisely what can push one into writing about something. You keep the plot going until you reach a point where you no longer know what’s happening. Then you’re done."

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