On Roughness, Recurrence, and the Book That Refuses to Behave

I’ve been obsessing lately over what to call the book I’m finishing. Not just in the practical publishing sense, though that’s part of it. I mean in the deeper craft sense. What is this thing I’ve made? Is it a novel-in-stories? A composite novel? A short story cycle? Or is it simply a book of stories thatContinue reading “On Roughness, Recurrence, and the Book That Refuses to Behave”