magpies, shiny threads, and the ‘entire fabric’
Posted in definitions, distinctions, influence, Tom La Farge, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 20th, 2011
Tom La Farge writes: Here’s what I’d say about critical fictions: that all writers are readers, that most writers are magpies, reading for the shiny threads they snatch up and carry off to their hoards, to be used in something they write sooner or later. You can’t call this “critical” on their part, even though […]