Check out Michael Noll‘s interview with Laurie Stone about My Life as an Animal, Stories (Northwestern University Press) at Read to Write Stories!
Here’s an excerpt:
“I use a number of techniques shared with film and visual art, among them montage, fades, collage, bricolage, etc. The sections you refer to are not “asides.” For there to be “asides,” there would need to be a central intention. Nothing was cut or edited out because it was extraneous. I cut when a sentence is repetitious, obvious, or clichéd. If you feel there is a dramatic build-up in the stories, and I hope you do, it comes from adding complexity or switching from direction A (melancholy in separateness) to direction B (ecstasy in solitude). I hope connections for the reader will jump across the border between one thing placed beside another thing . . . the way we understand what is happening from montage in film . . . a shot of a cat in an open door, the next shot of a mouse behind the leg of a chair. I wonder what you felt reading the example you gave.”
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