Jim Manis
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T. Coraghessan Boyle:
I've been following your career for more than 30 years now, but I'd like to ask for your take on the current state of the short story, if you can add anything to what you said in the intro to the current "Best of …," which I read with a good deal of pleasure? Forty years ago, the late John Gardner told me he thought the genre was dead. I think you and others have proven him quite wrong?
T. Coraghessan Boyle
And the novel has been declared dead too, but literary artists have no choice but to do what they do. Even if the audience diminishes. I often cite Kafka's "The Hunger Artist" in this regard.
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