Perusing a collection of 11 short stories with the same title (one of the short stories) by Joyce Carol Oates. The New York Times says in the jacket: "This collection could be used as a master class in the art of pure, suspenseful storytelling."
***A another perusing, of Ernest Hemingway's writings on two of America's greatest passions--hunting and fishing. So far, the Nobel Prize-winning author, has the greatest hold on me with respect to description of places. He was detailed, graphic, movable like a photographer recording the terrain of the setting of his stories and essays. It is as if I have gone to these places--these mountains, these streams, these hunting grounds. Ernest Hemingway's powerful narratives take your breath away.
On the back cover of the hard-bound brown book, the Washington Post says, "Hemingway at his purest... artfully spare, gracefully descriptive, and faithful to his professional commitment."
On the same back cover, the Chicago Tribune extols: " Hemingway's best writing on fishing. It is what Hemingway loved most."
The blogger recommends these books to Ilokano writers in the Philippines so they may learn what writing truly means. Sometimes, or, rather, you must be involved all the time in the times and settings of your narrative. Not just a process of the imagination. Sad to say, Ilokano writings, not all, don't reflect even just a hint of where the action of their stories takes place.
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| The blogger as provincial chief of a government agency in Ilocos Sur, Philippines receiving a certificate of appreciation from the mayor of Tagudin town. |
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