Q&A with Elizabeth Crane

From my Q&A with Elizabeth Crane, author of That May Not Mean What You Think: Stories:

How much work does your title do to take readers into the stories?

I like a title that suggestive of what's inside the book, in this case, the idea I had about That May Not Mean What You Think was that even though it speaks to that particular story, it also speaks to the overall stories in the sense that it playfully invites the reader to question things they think they're sure about, via my stories or otherwise.

What's in a name?

I love to have fun with character names. In the story "Nepo Babies," they don't have actual names, they're just identified by who they were related to: The white feminist's grandchild, the grandson of the muckety-muck, the shady tech heiress. And in the story "Senior Living for the Unknowables," which is inspired by...[read on]

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