When people think about incorporating theme, it can conjure cringe-worthy images of characters preaching to each other about the author’s intentions and cornily weaving in a “moral” that leaves readers feeling condescended to. One of my favorite...
In my fiction class the other day, we were discussing Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, a short story collection that is a class of the genre written around 1919. It’s a good book–I highly recommend you read it if you haven’t–but it is...
