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ThomasLynch.com
Thomas Lynch
is the award-winning author of 3 collections of poetry and 3 books of
non-fiction. He lives in Milford, Michigan and Moveen, West Clare.
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Interview
with Thomas Lynch
The
Short Review:
How long did it take you to write all the stories in your collection?
Thomas Lynch: Ten years.
TSR:
Did you
have a collection in mind when you were writing them?
TL: No.
TSR:
How did
you choose which stories to include and in what order?
TL: I had great assistance and very good counsel from my
editors, Robin Robertson in London and Jill
Bialosky in New York.
TSR:
What
does the word "story"
mean to you?
TL: How the things that happen becomes the the things that happened
and to whom.
TSR:
Do you have a reader in mind when you write stories?
TL: Well there are several, actually, each with a different
set of requirements.
TSR: Is
there
anything you'd like to ask someone who has read your collection, anything at all?
TL:
No, not really. Maybe, was it worth the read?
TSR: How does
it feel knowing that people are buying your book?
TL: Pretty good.
TSR:
What are you working on now?
TL: A longer fiction. Poems. A play.
TSR:
What are
the three most recent short story collections you've read?
TL: What Becomes, A.L. Kennedy. The Dubliners, James
Joyce. Two Marriages, Phillip Lopate
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