The Story and the Overstory
Works by Richard Powers and Paul Harding use innovative structures to communicate the messages at their heart.
Tinkers
Writing the Mind: Nicole Krauss, W.G. Sebald, & Paul Harding
How does one apply the adage show don’t tell to the interior of the mind—a vast expanse one inhabits daily, but never sees? While Pixar’s Inside Out turns the subconscious into a playful and sometimes dark adventure, literature must rely on language—pacing, syntax, and form matching function. In the early pages of Nicole Krauss’s novel Great…