...and see Bob's cool introduction--how he came to write this early story--
and how he threw out one million words of "dreck"--trying to learn how to be a writer.
pretty amazing story.
Cool. I’ll have to check it out. More people should read Robert Olen Butler. He’s one of the great contemporary American writers.
I love Robert Olen Butler's work. The story of the man who comes back as a bird is one of my all-time favorite stories ever
It's inspirational to hear how he fearlessly threw out so many words he considered useless (dreck) to his early stories -- a lesson to all writers