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Course 391 · Lesson 04

Advanced Creative Writing: Character, Setting, and the Short Story

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Finding Stephen Alter: Reading a Master at Work

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The author of this guide chose to study in India for a year rather than transfer to another university abroad. He ended up in Mumbai — a city he had misunderstood before arriving, a city of profound contrasts, where the dense east and the modern west occupy the same geography, where the art galleries replaced the video parlours that had replaced the cybercafés. He spent his afternoons in bookshops: Crossword, Granth, places with caged coffee bars and jazz music and the smell of new paper. He left Mumbai with two extra suitcases full of books and paid every last penny he had in his pocket as excess baggage at the airport.

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