"My Body Stopped Speaking to Me"
Even now it amazes and annoys me: that until the moment Art Cooper told me to write the fucking story, it had never even occurred to
me to use in my published work the voice in which I had been speaking
to myself for years. That is, it hadn’t occurred to me to publish work…in my own voice. How
stupid is that? All this is to say that this story, or rather the
editorial injunction that birthed it, taught me that a vivid writing
voice is less a matter of talent—far less—than license.
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