Liam Callanan: Distraction, Displacement, and Discourse: On Dialogue in Poetry and Fiction (January 2015)

Looking beyond mechanics, Liam Callanan discusses how dialogue works in fiction and poetry: what is conveyed, what is concealed, and what, in the end, does effective dialogue sound like—aand look like—on the page? Authors discussed include Theocritus, Robert Frost, Louise Gluck, Toni Morrison, Alice McDermott, and others.