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Thu 01 Jan 2009How writers trigger imaginations with metaphors framed against snow
I LIKE this government report saying that more Americans than before are reading novels and short stories, 113 million, in fact. Fiction is my cash crop, and that’s good news. Too bad, though, that the report was issued by the National Endowment for the Arts, writes Garrison Keillor.
A deep-down aversion to A-R-T is one big reason half of America stays away from fiction. They’re afraid they’ll come across a sentence like: “She looked out the window and saw the reflection of her own pale face against the drifted snow.” Something girlish and moody like that.
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