Word: ah
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...AH: Anyway, a book like “Unleashed,” which you mentioned—Jim Shepard and I decided to do that, and we gave half the money it made to animal charities and it’s still earning money for them, which is great, it makes me feel very good. So, much of my writing is still interconnected with animal concerns...
...AH: It ran as a concurrent theme—concurrent with wanting to be a vet as a little girl. I didn’t start writing for real until I was in my mid to late twenties, but I’d always worked with animals and veterinarians. I’d been a surgical assistant for one. Oh, wait, do you hear that? Snoring dog in the background...
...AH: No, no. It became sort of a lazy reviewer tool or label. And a number of writers were labeled minimalists. It became somewhat pejorative when it was more widely used some years back, and the person who came up with the more accurate term was Ray Carver, who said, “Well, you’re actually a precisionist!” He included me and a couple others, including Mary Robison, and himself. We’re precisionists. It wasn’t about what we left out, although that can be important too, but that?...
...AH: Well, I do, often to the detriment of what I’m supposed to be doing. I’ve said to a few people: “Well, I’m the person who goes to a fascinating lecture, but what I’m paying attention to is the kind of barrette the lady in row three is using to hold her hair up and when it’s about to fall out.” So again, details, certainly, but it’s not always a gift...
...AH: Up, Wanita, up! Good girl...