hemon and mccann converse

Aleksandar Hemon and Colum McCann chatted by email about imagination vs. experience and a bunch of other stuff. The Guardian’s transcripts. (First in a two-part series.)

Update: read Part II here.

One Response to “hemon and mccann converse”

  1. erik Says:

    An interesting grappling with writing and literature. I like the fact that both authors reject “fiction” as a term for what they do. And I particularly like that McCann prefers the term “storytelling”. I think storytelling is what modern authors should do a lot more of.

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