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History of a plot: Part 2, Crossing Delancey
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. – Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Yesterday’s Part 1 introduced us to William Rapfogel, protege of...
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History of a plot: Part 3, Code words for ‘those people’
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict; something bad has to happen. – Mike Judge. As we saw in Part 1 and...
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History of a plot: Part 4, Housing for whom?
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith The king died, and then the queen dies is a story. The king died, and then the queen died of grief, is a...
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History of a plot: Part 5, it’s not gentrification if it’s we who gentrify
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3] By: David A. Smith When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. – Charles Baxter...
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History of a plot: Part 6, You can’t go home again
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 5 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.] By: David A. Smith Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. – Phaedrus. As we’ve...
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