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Let's Deconstruct a Story

Let's Deconstruct a Story

著者： Kelly Fordon
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 Let's Deconstruct a Story: A podcast for the story nerds! Aspiring writers need to understand the components of a good story before they can write one. Choices of POV, plot, setting, and tone are crucial. In each episode, I'll be interviewing a writer about one of their own stories, which will be available for listeners to read for free on my website before they listen. This podcast is produced in collaboration with the Grosse Pointe Public Library which has committed to buying ten books by each of these authors. Look for names of other libraries as we add them. www.kellyfordon.com.

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  • Eli Sparkman talks FLASH!

    Eli Sparkman talks FLASH!
    2025/06/24
    * Here is Eli in a half-trench coat Sheila Heti gave him :)Hi Everyone,Well, the world might be a s%$# show, but at least we still have our stories. Today, I’m featuring the work of the brilliant Eli Sparkman, one of the member-owners of Book Suey in Hamtramck, Michigan. We had so much fun discussing his stories. I hope you enjoy this deep dive as much as I did. This is FLASH, so Eli was able to read three in their entirety before we discuss them; however, I still recommend reading and annotating them beforehand on your own. Thanks to Elliot Bancel for editing this discussion!***Read Eli’s stories here: Crown Molding – X-R-A-YChew – Action, Spectacle400,000 Lawns – HADDaffodil – Bending GenresNo Dinosaur – ANMLY***Bio:Elijah Sparkman is a writer based in Detroit. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in ANMLY, Sleepingfish, Sundog Lit, and X-R-A-Y. He is the Program and Volunteer Coordinator for 826michigan, a youth creative writing organization. He is a member-owner of the co-op bookstore Book Suey in Hamtramck, MI. ***On August 1st, I’ll be speaking with Ananda Lima on the podcast about her story, “Antropófaga,” featured in The Kenyon Review Online. Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Ghosts of Where We Are From, an anthology of dark fiction by Latin American authors, edited by Cynthia Pelayo (Primer Sueño/Atria Books). She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio, Chicago. Lima was a mentor at the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program and the inaugural Latinx-in-Publishing WIP Fellow, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers. She has an MA in Linguistics (UCLA) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Rutgers-Newark). Craft, her fiction debut, was longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.” Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago and New York. (photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan)***Paid subscribers can join me for a subscriber-only discussion of the story on July 16th at 4 pm by registering here.***In Other News: I’ve revamped my poetry blog, My Personal Favorite, because I want to celebrate the work of fellow poets. A poetry community is harder to find in rural Ohio, where I spend a lot of time these days, so creating a virtual community has become a priority for me. I also have a new poetry collection, What Trammels the Heart, available from SFAPress, which can be found here. If you use the 40% discount code: HEART40, it’s a bargain!The cover artist for What Trammels the Heart was Michigan artist Kimberly Santini. If you don’t know her work, you should check it out: See you soon and Happy Summer! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit letsdeconstructastory.substack.com/subscribe
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  • Erika Krouse, Caitlin Horrocks and Kelly Fordon discuss two stories...

    Erika Krouse, Caitlin Horrocks and Kelly Fordon discuss two stories...
    2025/06/15
    Hi Everyone!In this episode of the podcast, Caitlin Horrocks and I interview Erika Krouse about “Jude” from her new collection, Save Me, Stranger. AND THEN…Erika and I interview Caitlin about her story “Better Not Tell You Now.” We had so much fun! And I learned so much about the craft of writing. You will too.Links to both stories are below. Please read before you listen, because we will spoil the endings :) “Jude” is available here at The Colorado Review, Summer 2024.“Better Not Tell You Now” is here at swamp pink.See below for more information on these esteemed guests, along with links to purchase their books. I’ll see you again on July 1st with Eli Sparkman. We’ll be discussing five of his flash fiction pieces (available on my Substack right now.)I hope you enjoy the episode. As always, please send your reading recommendations!Cheers,Kelly PS: Shout out to our new paid subscribers who heard my plea for help supporting this podcast:) Thank you so much, Maureen, David, Lisa, Chris, Erika, and Barbara. I appreciate it! Caitlin Horrocks is the author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. Her novel The Vexations was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2019 by the Wall Street Journal. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, Tin House, and One Story, as well as other journals and anthologies. Her awards include the Plimpton Prize and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Colony. She formerly served as fiction editor of the Kenyon Review. She teaches at Grand Valley State University and occasionally in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with the writer W. Todd Kaneko and their three noisy kids.Purchase Caitlin’s amazing books here. Erika Krouse is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her newest short story collection, Save Me, Stranger (Flatiron Books) was hailed as “a dozen little masterpieces,” by Adam Johnson, “remarkable” by Ann Beattie, and Louise Erdrich said, “Read these stories with a buddy, because someone will have to scrape you off the floor.” “Eat My Moose” from the collection is the winner of the 2025 Edgar Award for Best Short Story, and will be included in 2025 Best Mystery Stories of the Year and The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025.Erika is also the author of Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation (March 2022, Flatiron Books): winner of the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction. Tell Me Everything is also a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Book of the Month Club pick, a People Magazine People Pick, named “Best Nonfiction of 2022” by BookPage and Kirkus Reviews, and “Best 10 Books of 2022” by both Slate and Jezebel. The memoir has been featured/reviewed in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, Airmail, The Week, Harper’s Bazaar, LitHub, Real Simple, ELLE, CrimeReads, BookPage, and others.Purchase Save Me, Stranger (so good!!!) here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit letsdeconstructastory.substack.com/subscribe
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  • "Let's Deconstruct a Story" featuring Christie Hodgen

    "Let's Deconstruct a Story" featuring Christie Hodgen
    2025/06/01

    Before listening to my interview with Christie Hodgen, please read her story, “Rich Strike,” because the interview is full of spoilers!

    The story is available for free here on the Story website, thanks to Michael Nye. Please consider subscribing to Story and supporting great literature here.

    Congratulations to Christie for winning a Pushcart Prize for this story as well.

    If you would like to read my annotation of the story and some background on the books discussed during our interview, please consider becoming a paid subscriber and accessing my annotation in the archives here.

    The interview is available for free here on Substack and Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

    I can’t wait to unpack this story with you!

    Cheers,

    Kelly

    P.S.: I gave Christie Hodgen’s novel, Elegies for the Brokenhearted, to at least eight people one Christmas (I feel like it was more than that, but eight—at least—that I can track). It’s one of my all-time favorites. You can purchase a copy here.

    Bio: Christie Hodgen’s most recent novel, Boy Meets Girl, won the 2020 AWP Prize for the Novel. Her other books include Elegies for the Brokenhearted, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “the literary equivalent of a hand grenade,” as well as Hello, I Must Be Going and A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw.

    Hodgen has published short stories and essays in dozens of literary journals and anthologies. Her work has received several awards, including two Pushcart Prizes, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Kansas City and is the editor of New Letters magazine.

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    I hope you enjoy this episode. If you do, please consider joining me as a yearly subscriber and/or helping to sponsor LDAS with a small donation. I would love to produce more content, but I need funds to do that. LDAS is entirely listener-supported, which allows us the freedom to create content of our choosing, and I hope to keep it that way.

    **Thanks also to our audio engineer, Elliot Bancel!**

    ***

    On June 15th, I will be speaking with Eli Sparkman about his flash fiction (see the archive here for his stories.)

    On July 1st, I’ll be speaking with Erika Krouse about her story, “Jude,” first published in The Colorado Review and later in her phenomenal short story collection, Save Me, Stranger. Caitlin Horrocks will join me for the interview, and after we discuss Jude, we will talk about Caitlin’s story, “Better Not Tell You Now,” from swamp pink.



    This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit letsdeconstructastory.substack.com/subscribe
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