“Stories are pretty much just confined not really to objective truth, but to points of view.” Joshua Ferris discusses his views on storytelling, narrative, and characterization at a party thrown by Sheepscot Creative. Ferris’s debut story collection, The Dinner Party (Little, Brown, 2017), is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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