Kathryn Schulz Writes about Suspense in Writing and Life
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I ran across this article the other day and subscribed to the New Yorker because it provides the most precise description of why I am searching for literary mysteries.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/the-secrets-of-suspense
The Secrets of Suspense
We love churning apprehension in fiction; we hate it in life. But understanding the most fundamental technique of storytelling can teach us something about being alive.
By Kathryn Schulz
May 20, 2024
Kathryn Schulz is an accomplished American journalist and author. She currently serves as a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her work spans a wide range of topics, from seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest to the radical life of civil rights activist Pauli Murray and even Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.
I looked into the writer and found that:
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the story of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of the role that loss and discovery play in all of our lives. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering--a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition, and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. Lost & Found is an enduring account of love in all its many forms from one of the great writers of our time.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/the-secrets-of-suspense
The Secrets of Suspense
We love churning apprehension in fiction; we hate it in life. But understanding the most fundamental technique of storytelling can teach us something about being alive.
By Kathryn Schulz
May 20, 2024
Kathryn Schulz is an accomplished American journalist and author. She currently serves as a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her work spans a wide range of topics, from seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest to the radical life of civil rights activist Pauli Murray and even Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.
I looked into the writer and found that:
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the story of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of the role that loss and discovery play in all of our lives. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering--a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition, and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. Lost & Found is an enduring account of love in all its many forms from one of the great writers of our time.
