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Mike Maggio: Stories Are Rooted In the Oral Tradition

by Mike Maggio | May 2, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing

The short story is the crystalline form of the novel; that is, it takes the essence of what makes a novel (character, plot, dramatic development) and condenses it into a form that is whole and pleasing. What the novelist accomplishes in two or three hundred pages, the...