5/21/2023 0 Comments The evolution of bruno littlemore![]() “The Minus World” I also wrote pretty quickly, sometime in 2011 (it’s the last story in the collection because I like its final note. I think I wrote the first draft of “Leftovers” in one day in the summer of 2009. I think I wrote the first draft of “The Fat Artist” concurrently with Bruno (he has a Bruno-like voice, and also I was thinking constantly about Kafka at the time). So, I wrote the first drafts of those two before Bruno. I bet those two have gone through hundreds of “drafts.” I would take them out and work on them some more every once in a while. The first story, “Don’t Worry Baby” is almost as old. We reached out to Hale to talk about his writing process and his new collection, which was published last week.Īnabel Graff: How did this collection come about? How did you approach the transition from writing a novel of epic scope ( The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore) to these stories?īenjamin Hale: These stories slowly formed over the course of the last ten years or so. I wrote the first draft of “If I had Possession Over Judgment Day” in my senior year of college. What at first may read as absurd becomes meaningful and then moving through Hale’s skillful and playful storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his first story collection, Benjamin Hale introduces us to characters who inhabit the margins of society: an expat outlaw revolutionary trying to find her way home, a dominatrix confronting a new possible role as mother, a performance artists eating himself towards death. ![]()
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