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React to a Lydia Davis Interview

Read Lydia Davis's interview with Francine Prose in BOMB Magazine (available online). Write a paragraph that summarizes what she has to say and then a second paragraph that offers your personal reaction to her ideas and their relationship to "The Center of the Story."

Write Your Own Story About Stories

Flex your metafictional muscles by writing your own short-short story about stories. It can be about writing, reading, or narrative itself and should run between a page and three pages.

Center The Writer's Life in an Epilogue

Write an epilogue to "The Center of the Story" in which the woman finds a center to her story and therefore to her own life. Your epilogue should be about a page in length and should find a way to reflect this new development in the protagonist's life with new developments in the narrative style...

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