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Writer Peter Taylor read two of his accla
part of the Spring Writers Series.
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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