![]() ![]() Very likely I kept my mouth shut in complete terror. I don’t remember what, if anything I said of substance about the story to Stephen Dixon that day. There he sat-the author himself, wise and calm at the head of our long seminar table, interested in what 14 college juniors had to say about his work. Only entering our classroom that day did we learn that Frydman had invited him to join us in the discussion. Once or twice, I had lingered after class to watch her husband come in to gently escort her away through the hallways. ![]() ![]() She had multiple sclerosis and taught from a wheelchair. I knew that Dixon taught in our writing program at Johns Hopkins University, and that he was married to Professor Frydman. Each weekly session of three hours was devoted to picking apart just one short story by each master.įor that final class, we’d been assigned the story “Love and Will” by Stephen Dixon. I first met Dixon on the final day of a class in my junior year of college called “Short Story in the 20 th Century.” It was Spring of 2002, and our professor, Anne Frydman, had been teaching us all how to carefully dissect works of art by Anton Chekov, Flannery O’Connor, and JD Salinger. ![]() The author of Frog (1991) and Interstate (1995) two National Book Award finalists, published some thirty other books, including collections of his over 500 short stories. ![]()
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