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Karen Thompson Walker on Conceiving the Inconceivable in Fiction
“There is a pleasure in being reminded that we don’t yet know all there is to know about the universe.”
When I was in college, my first creative writing teacher recommended a book that would change the trajectory of my life as a writer: The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by the neurologist, Oliver Sacks.
That teacher was Aimee Bender, who had just published a collection of dazzlingly imaginative short stories, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, which featured girls with hands made of fire and of ice as well as a woman who gives birth to her own elderly mother.
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“There is a pleasure in being reminded that we don’t yet know all there is to know about the universe.”
When I was in college, my first creative writing teacher recommended a book that would change the trajectory of my life as a writer: The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by the neurologist, Oliver Sacks.
That teacher was Aimee Bender, who had just published a collection of dazzlingly imaginative short stories, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, which featured girls with hands made of fire and of ice as well as a woman who gives birth to her own elderly mother.
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Karen Thompson Walker on Conceiving the Inconceivable in Fiction
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. When I was in college, my first creative writing teacher recommended a book that would change the trajectory of my life as…
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