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Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman
So it's got to have a lot of depth.
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Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman
It's got to be short.
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Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman
It's got to have a lot of depth.
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Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman
And a short story has got to have that sort of aspect to it, I think.
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You know, just off the top of my head, that's what I was thinking.
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Yeah, I think every thinking Australian would be a fan of Peter Temple, and if they haven't ever encountered one of his books, particularly The Broken Shore or Truth, which are his two classics, they're selling themselves short.
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He captured something about Australian men and how they talk and how they think and feel or don't feel or hide their feelings, and all of that is in this sort of genre of the crime novel, but it's a lot deeper.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And he was a South African by birth, so he was an immigrant.
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And maybe that accounts for how he saw us for what we really are.
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He came from a similar society, maybe, a white South African.
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But when he got here, he worked as a journalist and he really captured something about how we talk, I think.
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He said once that he used to listen to late-night talkback radio so he could hear middle-class, working-class, white Australian men talking.
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And that's how he got the voices of the police and the Crimps.
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Such was his commitment to...
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Well, I mean, research is a good thing to do when trying to write a novel, but yeah, I agree with you.
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That would be pretty tough.
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But anyway, that's what he used to do.
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The other thing I often think about his writing is that I don't know if you've ever encountered Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules for Writing.