1. stream of consciousness
Narrator
The person who “tells” a story.
First-person narrator: observer OR participant
They may or may not be unreliable
Third-person narrator: omniscient or limited omniscience
Sometimes they editorialize
First/Third person narrator: central consciousness
stream of consciousness
interior monologue

2. Dynamic vs. static characters
The purpose of stories is to reveal character either general or particular. The main character is the Protagonist.
Dynamic vs. static characters
Antagonist
Sympathetic?
why or why not?

3. Lorrie Moore

4. in an interview by Believer Magazine
““Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It’s also where the comedy is, which I’m interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.”.”
–Lorrie Moore
in an interview by Believer Magazine

5. Jamaica Kincaid

6. “If only I had become a slut”
–Jamaica Kincaid

7. Rick Moody

8. “everything we do is political, whether you want it to be or not
“everything we do is political, whether you want it to be or not. So best to have your literature have some awareness that that’s one of the properties of our job, that we never write without articulating some kind of politics. . .”
–Rick Moody

9. “Just because the language has real incredible pop to it, because I have this sort of again, a limitation I'm working with which is that virtually every sentence has to have the word "boys" in it, "house" in it. So it's really consistent and coherent as a piece of prose, but it's also I think it's got a lot of different emotional moods packed into a really tiny little space that just wastes nothing. It's like a lot of stories I've written the narrative time is 20 minutes or it's a day or something. This is the first time I ever really wrote a story about entire lives and in eight pages. So for me it really does stuff that I feel like I hadn't done very well before.”