Recommended to all others with a disclaimer that several of these stories will confuse, frustrate and/or repulse you.Ortberg has a distinct voice, one in which you hear much of his life experience even though these stories are fairy tales. Recommended mainly to readers familiar with the Grimms' brand of storytelling. Frankly, the religious aspects didn't resonate with me at all, which probably affected my overall enjoyment, though not my appreciation. Ruffin is the 2022 Grand Marshal of the Mardi Gras Krewe of House Floats.Dark, yet often humorous, retellings infused with other folklore, Shakespeare, and religion, mostly Catholicism. A New Orleans native, Ruffin is a professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, and the 2020-2021 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Kenyon Review, and Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Award for Novel-in-Progress. The novel was also a New York Times Editor’s Choice.
It was longlisted for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. His first book, We Cast a Shadow, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and longlisted for the Story Prize. It was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a finalist for the Ernest J. Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, which was published by One World Random House in August 2021. Laveryįacilitated by: Daphne Armbruster & Rachel Dunphy Topic: On the string that threads plot and character. But what happens when you change some key aspects of character’s personality and flaws? How much will the story change? From there, we’ll discuss our own theories about the craft and offer each other advice on how to implement it into your own work. This short story is a spin on the fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast that we’re all accustomed to. To kick off our discussion, we ask that you read The Merry Spinster by Daniel M. We’ll read a short story before the event to guide our conversation and enjoy an evening dissecting and analyzing the story and craft behind it.įor our inaugural salon, we’ll be discussing the intrinsic nature of plot and character-how satisfying stories are made when you cannot separate one from the other. Join us for a new event - our salon! At this event, we will discuss an aspect of craft.
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