“This is the way I read Amy Hempel. I imagine that when she was blowing away her peers and instructors in workshops at Harvard or Colombia or wherever she developed her incredible stories, she was still thinking about you and me and the most personal, touching way to share complicated emotions and personal tragedy. Her sentences are so precise, each powerful enough to relate it’s own story, but in the end she seems to put compassion above her art. That means in a short amount of...”

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