ARTICLES BY JIM SHEPARD
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 LESSONS FROM THE LEARNED
Three Great Writers (Who Are Also Teachers) Give Us Their Unofficial SyllabiJim Shepard is the author of six novels and three collections of stories, the latest of which, the jaw-dropping Like You'd Understand, Anyway, won the Story Prize and was a National Book Award finalist. Besides writing heartbreaking, hilarious works that have been convincingly set in every conceivable milieu and told in every imaginable voice, Jim is a professor of English at Williams College....
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  IN CRETACEOUS SEAS
By Jim ShepardI tend to flip from OK insomnia to bad insomnia depending on how things in my life are going, and this story came out of a stretch of insomnia as bad as I've had in a while. I'd been struggling with another story for some months by that point, and woke up one night to the certainty that I just couldn't pull the fucking thing off. There was no way I could do it. But more importantly, I was a worthless piece of shit. I understood that, lying there, with more than my usual blinding clarity. This went on for some time. My wife murmured sympathetica...
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