Book swag is my favorite swag! Can't wait to dig into this lovely chapbook. And my car smells like...magnificent verse. Thanks to
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Robert Yune
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Board member, Autumn House Press Debut story collection 'Impossible Children' won the Mary McCarthy Prize, out now from Sarabande Books Core faculty, West Virginia Wesleyan College Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing Program www.robertyune.com
![From John Updike's "Why Write?": How dare one confess, to the politely but firmly inquiring letter-writer who takes for granted that as a remote but functioning element of his education [the author is] duty-bound to provide the information and elucidating essay that will enable him to complete his term paper, or his Ph.D. thesis, or his critical opus--how dare one confess that the absence of a swiftly expressible message is, often, *the* message; that reticence is as important a tool to the writer as expression; that the hasty filling out of a questionnaire is not merely irrelevant but *inimical* to the writer's proper activity; that this activity is rather curiously private and finicking, a matter of exorcism and manufacture than of toplofty proclamation; that what he makes is ideally as ambiguous and opaque as life itself."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oiemjlpzhpfis4g2idpzyioz/bafkreiegxrvga2uskvx5gwr7qteg7roymahs6yzkflsijwwoucjihhowfm)
