Posts by: Robert McGuire

Reading Like a Writer…English Major…Critic

On February 26, 2011 By Robert McGuire

The blog Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes (which I recommend) has a recent post that reminds me of a formula I've been using lately to talk to my fiction-writing students when advising them on how to learn from the fiction they are reading.

I'm not the first to recommend "reading like [...]

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Film Adaptations: Short Stories vs. Novels

On September 4, 2009 By Robert McGuire

I’ve had a hypothesis for awhile that short stories lend themselves better to film adaptations than novels do. Of course, as soon as I sat down to make the case in writing, I remembered dozens of novels made into good films. Still, looking at the different ways novels and short stories are treated seems to [...]

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