Cross River with Rion Amilcar Scott: Talking Fiction and Geography with the author of Insurrections
Everything is relative. It’s just as hard to write a good short story as it is to write a good novel. It’s harder, also, to write a bad novel than it is to write a bad short story. (More pages, more time.) Hardest of all, though, is a good collection of short stories. On the phone with Rion Amilcar Scott, I compared it to hitting ten grand slams in a row. It’s hyperbolic, sure, but not entirely incorrect. Scott’s debut, Insurrections, which comes out today, is a crazy streak of hits.