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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Leonard Gardner.
I recently read The Nature and Aim of Fiction by Flannery O’Connor. In it, she wrote: “It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus recreate some object that they actually see. But the world of the fiction write…
A reader-curated list
A reader-curated list
I can't think of another book that achieves so much with so little. Gardner's style is quiet, but his characters have such life. The novel takes place primarily in Stockton, California, there is a definite lineage in Gardner's portrayal of the city and its po…