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Any Str.dy'j ? ' |fcj v uuupun rip / / u J , w A 9 Coupon Good *1 Any S#nd/? ? H MMgMggigl Author Peter young writers By Andy Duncan "If you write a very short story, it has to be a poem," Peter Taylor says. Taylor, one of the nation's foremost short tory writers, spoke in Belk Auditorium rhursday night as part of USC's Spring Writers Series. He said a short story can benefit from "the yntax of poetry, the run-on line, the lOmctimcs rhyme, alliteration. Language has n roimt fnr n orpat ileal " TAYLOR BELIEVES conciseness is a virue, too, and says the ideal is to do in 10 jages what a novelist does in 100. Taylor, a Tennessee native, was a publishnt IQ. IaIi n rr/xu-n D/miAm ;u (HIIIIUI (11 in, JVMIII ind Allen Tate were among his teachers, Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrel among his. fellow students, and Robert Penn Warren among his early admirers. Warren wrote the preface to Taylor's first Dook, "A Long Fourth and Other Stories," published in 1947. Five years later, Taylor Jid his first public reading, and he r<?mrmhprs In* was so motivated hv the sound of his own voice that he even read stories by other authors before running out of time and breath. The first story Taylor read Thursday night was entitled "Her Need," about a female bank employee, disenchanted with her life. who turns to embezzlement alter her boss's latest attempt to promote her. "You're young still, by banking standards," he tells her. "To put it plainly, we think you'/e a whiz." TAYLOR'S PROTAGONIST is unim IIU/U., ?nn,?nn.. ,?ll t,..r nnu, * * 11 > mini iv;mv.vfiK ivn n\.i iivm-? , when it was 20 years loo late?" The author said the origin of that story came as lie was walking through Charlottesville, Virginia, at 7:30 a.m. and saw a 40-year-old woman recklessly driving a l ^ ? 1A ix-ycui-uiu ^uiiicwiitK. The image stuck and reappeared in the opening scene of his story. Taylor said anything he sees, hears or reads is likely to trigger a story. "II the thing sticks with me, it must mean something to me." 11 FOO D AD I BULIMIA COMPUL Are You Suffering From Ar Binge on high cal Inconspicuous eat I . Constant attempt Li Frequent weight [ ] Eating to diBComi | j Use of laxatives < i I L ] NAPLES IBhw LM &. cou A Complete Confidential Medi I* Private, Confidential, and Indi 24-Hour Medical Supervision i Modern Residential Setting. Individual and (irnun Thi'ranv I* Covered by Mont Insurance Pli (813)77 24-Hour / I or Toll Free I (800) 7 Call for a complimentary copy of oui to Food Addiction Call for complefo confidential inforr program or insurance approval NAPLES RESEARCH lh,' n,ih,>11 . iK.'sf i . i?i;irr/i('mi:v tvWi-/ii 9001 Tamiaml Trail Soul "i. An ifliiiiilf ( ' /rfll MAL Ca'f Bg| 1 __________________ ? BnBHiSBHBMHHHHHHHHBBB! Taylor tells to keep at it "Work, work, work. Turn out those stories that are uninspired, and when one really comes along you'll be able to handle it better." * - Peter Taylor The sccond story Taylor read, "Three Heroines," was inspired by a visit he made to his mother. The story's protagonist escorts his 86-year-old mother to "a golden wedding reception of a couple she hardly knew the % names of." "The coloring of her rouge and lipstick seems real. . . as real as a doll's coloring," the narrator observes. "Sticking like pitch to iMoiner, i am smncu upon ny everyone. Taylor was introduced Thursday night by Ashley Brown of the IJSC Mnglish department. the same man who introduced him that ?ight in 1952. Noting that this \sas his fifth introduction of Taylor in 33 years. Brown said, "I'm grateful to him for giving a certain continuity to my life." TAYLOR SAID that over the years, he's t experimented with writing stories as plays, stories as poems and one story in iambic pen tameter. " * nut that's too exnausting. i went hack and roughed them up." After the reading, Taylor said he spends "painful hours and hours" rewriting his stories, but he doesn't necessarily recommend that to everyone. "It depends on the temperament of the person." He also reiterated his advice for beginning writers. "Work, work, work. Turn out those stories that arc uninspired, and when one & really comes along you'll he able to handle it better." Upcoming writers in the series arc Lee Smith tomorrow and John Hollander April 25. Both readings arc free and start at H p.m. in Belk Auditorium. DIC'nON I , 5IVE OVEKEAI INC, f; ] iy Three of The Following: | | lorie food. Fj ting (hidden eating). j is at dieting. [ j fluctuations. t >r diuretics fKj 5 RESEARCH I ' NSELINO CENTER I cal and Psychiatric Evaluation. K vidual Treatment. k ind Support. R j Special Familization Program. | j '5-4500 1 '' \sMSt.lfUf f.yl 22-0100 Outside Florida ; ! r newest publication. 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