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Trying to Be: A Collection
The stories in John Haskell’s Trying to Be wrestle in exhilarating ways with the relationships between fiction and other arts—painting, film, dance—in a manner that feels natural and seamless. Painter, narrator, spectator, reader, writer—it doesn’t matter which. What matters is how they speak and think and create in relation to each other, always shifting, always refashioning themselves. Haskell’s narrators are porous—to these other art forms, to the past, to other people and characters. It is perhaps this permeability that forms them, and part of what forms the stories themselves.   
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Trying to Be: A Collection
The stories in John Haskell’s Trying to Be wrestle in exhilarating ways with the relationships between fiction and other arts—painting, film, dance—in a manner that feels natural and seamless. Painter, narrator, spectator, reader, writer—it doesn’t matter which. What matters is how they speak and think and create in relation to each other, always shifting, always refashioning themselves. Haskell’s narrators are porous—to these other art forms, to the past, to other people and characters. It is perhaps this permeability that forms them, and part of what forms the stories themselves.   
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Trying to Be: A Collection

Trying to Be: A Collection

by John Haskell
Trying to Be: A Collection

Trying to Be: A Collection

by John Haskell

Overview

The stories in John Haskell’s Trying to Be wrestle in exhilarating ways with the relationships between fiction and other arts—painting, film, dance—in a manner that feels natural and seamless. Painter, narrator, spectator, reader, writer—it doesn’t matter which. What matters is how they speak and think and create in relation to each other, always shifting, always refashioning themselves. Haskell’s narrators are porous—to these other art forms, to the past, to other people and characters. It is perhaps this permeability that forms them, and part of what forms the stories themselves.   

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781573662147
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 10/15/2025
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Haskell’s books include I Am Not Jackson Pollock, American Purgatorio, Out of My Skin, and The Complete Ballet. He is a writer and contributing editor at BOMB and A Public Space. He is the recipient of NYFA grants and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He has taught writing and literature in Los Angeles, New York, and Leipzig.
 
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