I can’t start writing a story until I know the shape of the manuscript into which it’s going to fit, because the characters don’t just show up. Then they look up, and years have gone by, and they have written thirteen stories, and they all just so happen to go together. They are able to follow their impulses down into the morass of storytelling. I’m curious if you think that you can achieve things in the short story that you can’t in the novel, and if there’s one you feel more at home with?īrandon Taylor: I think that there are some writers who are able to work on a story at a time. You had your spectacular debut novel, Real Life, and now you’re following that with Filthy Animals, a short story collection. Thomas Wee: I thought that I would start by asking you about the differences between the forms of the short story and the novel. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow.
His work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed Reader, O: The Oprah Magazine, Gay Mag, The New Yorker online, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. Brandon Taylor is the author of the novel Real Life, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, as well as The National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award.
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