We invited Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt to Stand-In as a surprise guest lecturer for a Stony Brook University fiction writing workshop studying his memoir, Angela’s Ashes.
“Nothing is insignificant until you make it insignificant,” McCourt advises. One can write about eating a chicken dinner, and “once you…understand the significance of food in your family and how you gather around it, then maybe you would realize the significance of all this and maybe you would be able to write about it one day.” Take note!
