one great short story writer, they say, who has complex plots it seems

[Jochen Stremmel]

Alice Munro came to mind as well.

2016-02-26 11:51 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> One restriction she had little time for, however, was sticking to a single
> point of view. Almost all her stories are written in the third person, and
> almost all of them access the thoughts of multiple characters. Sometimes
> she flicks briefly into the thoughts of an incidental character (in The
> Letter Writers it is a nosy neighbour who intrudes on Emily’s lunch), while
> elsewhere she cycles more methodically through a story’s cast, building a
> scene from multiple perspectives. Oasis of Gaiety (1951), about a boozy
> afternoon party, is a bravura example.
>
>
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