Tin House Live : On Dialogue with Dorothy Allison

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Recorded08 Apr 2020

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Dorothy Allison treated the participants of the 2011 Summer Workshop to a spirited discussion of how characters should speak on the page. Not only “he said, she said, none of them said a thing,” but a whole range of language issues—what is said and not said, dialect and rhythm, pacing, patterns in speech, and most […] The post Tin House Live : On Dialogue with Dorothy Allison appeared first on Tin House.

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