Nona Caspers's recent book of stories HEAVIER THAN AIR was awarded the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was an Editors' Choice in the New York Times Book Review. "darkly funny, compassionate and unsentimental" said Booklist and "pungent" and "artful" notes San Francisco Chronicle.
The color green
Alice Munro "Progress of Love", Lydia Davis, Lorrie Moore(sp), Christopher Isherwood, every strong piece of writing I've ever read I suppose
My teachers, Michelle Carter, Molly Giles, Susan Harper, etc
My beautiful friends
Death (aren't we all influenced by death?)
Grief (aren't we all influenced by grief?)
and the places they open up that shine slantwise
Growing up in blue-collar dairy cattle land in rural Minnesota where my father was a cow inseminator and my mother answered phones and raised eight children
(sorry this is a list but it felt right)
Favorite Books
Oh, so many. Grace Paley Collection, Lydia Davis Almost No Memroy and Varieties of Disturbance, M. Merleau Ponty Phenomonology of Perception, Christopher Isherwood A Single Man, Alice Munro Progress of Love,
Favorite Authors
Grace Paley, Christopher Ishwerwood, Lydia Davis, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolf.....man it goes on and on
What I'm Reading
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance, short stories by variety of authors selected by my wonderful MFA students
