"the soft stuff that is really important"

Blazing Reader,

Here's another quote from the August issue of Locus Magazine, where award-winning novelist Alexander Boldizar talks about "the soft stuff that is really important":

"My son loves reading non-fiction but doesn't read a lot of fiction. I've told him, 'With non-fiction you're learning hard stuff, but you're not learning the soft stuff that is really important.' I do think our world is, to some extent, moving away from long-form fiction, and I think that's a huge loss in being able to understand each other."

Reading a long novel is like having a long relationship. It's not a half-hour sitcom; it's not even a three-hour epic movie. It's something you come back to each day, and dive a little deeper — because the soft stuff is buried deep.

You can find out more about Boldizar and his Locus award-winning novel, The Man Who Saw Seconds, at Boldizar.com.

John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.