Fish | Criticism

  • Carol Ullmann

    Ullmann is a freelance writer and editor. In the following essay, Ullmann examines the function of memory in Mccorkle's short story.

  • Jill Mccorkle and Sherry Ellis

    Ellis is the editor of NOW WRITE! a collection of fiction writing exercises published by Tarcher/Penguin in September, 2006. Illuminating Fiction, her anthology of author interviews, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in September, 2007. She is at work on a novel and a collection of non-fiction writing exercises. Her author interviews have also appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Writer's Chronicle, Glimmer Train, and AGNI, as well as other literary and arts magazines. A personal writing coach, she teaches writing in Concord, Massachusetts. In the following interview, Ellis talks with the author about Creatures of Habit, her theme of connecting animal traits to human behavior, autobiographical threads in her stories as well as other themes, her writing process, and being a Southern writer.

  • Robert A. Beuka

    In the following essay, Beuka gives a critical analysis of Mccorkle's life and work.