Tag: paul simon
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George Saunders, Janis Ian, and Paul Simon—Where Meaning Comes From in Story
In a recent newsletter by one of my favourite writers, George Saunders, he writes of one of his characters in a short story, The Falls: “A story has a surface dimension (let’s call it the overstory) and another, deeper, dimension (the understory). The overstory, in this case, is whether Morse will save the girls. That’s…