One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
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But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.Tobias Wolff
So you're continually searching for new ways of using the story form to most perfectly contain and express the story you're telling.
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