Susan DeFreitas
Author, editor, and book coach who divides her time between Santa Fe and Portland; author of the novel Hot Season and editor of the anthology Dispatches from Hinares: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Sep 11, 2022 • 0sec
10. Discussion of 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction'
David Naimon, Portland-based writer and Le Guin scholar, and Susan DeFreitas, novelist and editor, explore Le Guin's 'Carrier Bag Theory.' They contrast container narratives with heroic arcs. They discuss Always Coming Home, polyvocal storytelling, diminishing conflict, narrative shapes like spirals, and why markets resist nontraditional forms.
