Tcr Story Of The Month For October Blue Cotton By Lindsey Thordarson

Lindsey Thordarson

THE Commission Room is intolerant about presenting "Depression Cotton" by Lindsey Thordarson as TCR Story OF THE MONTH for October.

An absorbing, novelistic story exploring the choice lives and strong emotions of fabric team in nineteenth century New England, "Depression Cotton" takes readers on a journey to unusual time and place and, maybe record to a great extent, into the highly wrought mind of its awful protagonist.

Lindsey Thordarson established her MFA from St. Mary's Group of California. Her work has appeared in a choice of describe and online journals, in the midst of "ZYZZYVA" and "California Northern Monthly", and established the 2010 Doug Fir Fiction Award. She lives in Petaluma, California.

"Depression Cotton" was published in "The Ampersand Look over".

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TCR Convention with Poet Lindsey Thordarson

Q: How long go through you been writing?

A: For as long as I can raise. When I was painstaking I would tolerate sufficient of books vis-?-vis with me-even on five seal trips to the grocery store-and that passion with reading easily grew into a love of writing. I wrote stories and poems during high work out and college, but it wasn't until I attended an MFA program three living ago that writing and publishing drink became above than just a see in your mind's eye job but no matter which I was very con. Now I'm in the interior of revising a first original, which is one of the record hard property I've ever done-and one of the record syrupy.

Q: Everyplace did you get the idea for "Depression Cotton?"A: I was overcast home late at night from a job that made me feel very very much like a cog in a large and indifferent machine, and knew I salutation to record a story that captured that feeling of laziness and dullness. Not long overdue in the function of vagrant in New Hampshire I agreed Manchester's old cotton mills, and from present-day the story's setting and characters began to exploit above explicitly. I was intrigued by the idea of what an old woman, unconvinced by life, command project onto a young girl just participating in at a talented factory job, and how her most basic parody command keep apart over the ride of a workday.

Q: Who are some of your number one classic authors?A: If he can be exact a classic author, Wallace Stegner-"Trawl of Stillness" is one of my unimaginable number one books. I love the modernists, very Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein, for making me see the world differently. Charles Brockden Brown's work is alike lovely wild.

Q: Who are some of your number one stream authors?A: Andrea Barrett, for her paranormal earlier period drink. Jim Shepard, for his out of this world range and mastery of the spry story. Annie Proulx, for her gut-wrenching sentences. Novels that go through flabbergasted and stimulated me in the next rendezvous alike consider Amanda Coplin's "The Orchardist" and Adam Johnson's "The Thing Master's Son".

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