Friday, March 3, 2017

Coy fiction

Curtis Sittenfield interviewed in the New Yorker online about her story "The Prarie Wife":
"The kind of fiction I like to read and write is very specific and detailed about everything—settings, moods, smells, textures—so to me it's kind of silly or coy not to apply that specificity and detail to sex, and I don't see the point of coy fiction. Therefore, I write the scenes that I think serve a particular story or novel, and in the moment of writing, I sort of exist in a parallel universe and don't consider what, say, my uncle or my former co-worker might think of my description of a blow job."

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