Tobias Wolff
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A novel invites digression and a little relaxation of the grip because a reader can't endure being held that tightly in hand for so long a time.
And I think the reason is exactly the reason people don't read poems. Because short stories are very demanding in their way.
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
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