Benjamin Roesch

Tag: time in fiction

  • Post #128: Some Thoughts on Ann Patchett

                In Ann Patchett’s 2011 novel State of Wonder, she demonstrates how a writer can, and should, manipulate time to inform a reader’s experience and focus her attention. In a rudimentary sense, time = importance. By skipping briskly through time, for instance, a reader subconsciously…