Thursday, August 11, 2011
College English 101 No Comma Splice Help?
In the introduction to his book of true stories, I thought My Father Was God. Paul Auster describes how he was able to collect these accounts of real and sometimes raw experience. In October 1999, Auster, in collaboration with National Public Radio, began the National Story Project. During an interview on the radio program, Weekend All Things Considered, he invited listeners to send in their stories about unusual events---"true stories that sounded like fiction." In just one year I have read over four thousand stories, and most of them have been compelling enough to hold me until the last word," Auster affirms. "Most have been written with simple, straightforward conviction, and most have done honor to the people who sent them in." Some of the stories Auster collected can now be read in his anthology. Choosing stories for the collection was difficult, though. "For every story about a dream or an animal or a missing object," explains Auster, "there were dozens of others that were submitted and dozens of others that could have been chosen."
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