Unveiling Heartbreak and Healing: Brenda Miller Reveals the Secrets Behind Her Powerful New Memoir.
RP: Wow. Why do you think that even with all the work that’s been done to legitimize the genre, writers are still leaning really hard on the emotional stuff? It’s wonderful, but it isn’t enough.
BM: I don’t know… I’m suspecting that people aren’t reading as much and as deeply as we used to do as students. You know, reading with an eye for very specific things like this. What is the writer doing in this sentence? Let’s just look at the first sentence and figure out why it works.
RP: Well, it’s the difference between reading as a reader and reading as a writer.
