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I want to do this with more authors!

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It's the little things that count.
"When a single bird called out, you heard it from wherever you where" - Ajax is all about attack

The dog in "Flight Officer F. W. Murnau's Fifth Crash, Aircraft Unsalvageable"

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The Importance of Place

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Less is more; Shepard has really impressed me with his subtle yet expert command of plot. Every sentence says something important, and no sentence says the same thing as another.

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1. Has great command of visual/sensory imagery to evoke a scene
2. Keeps good pace with mostly short to mid-length sentences
3. Seamlessly alternates between descriptive action and introspective emotional conflict

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My Own Story Rewritten in the Style of Shepard

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My Own Story Rewritten in the Style of Shepard

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The roar of two vehicles colliding.  Andrew’s pace slows as his eyes are drawn to the wreckage.  Walking a little further, he grinds to a stop, finding himself too attracted to the senseless carnage to look away.  He props himself against the side of “Chip’s Everything You Need” convenience store to watch.  The scene was a busy downtown street during lunch hour, and Mr. Andrew Bolton had nothing better to do with his time.  Nothing better than to stop and watch another person’s tragedy.  He gazed on, devoid of feeling, as the emergency vehicles arrived.  He watched them wrangle a battered body from the wreckage.  The man’s broken breast heaved with slight wisps of breath.  His wife clung to his sleeve, tears sullying her face.

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Shepard employs a straight-forward, tightly structured approach to his writing that is reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway's 'iceberg' technique, in which the sentences are short and descriptive but imply much more beneath the surface. He, as consequence, maintains an impressive balance between describing physical events and building the power of emotional conflicts.  Here is an example of his style from the story "Happy with Crocodiles," he starts; "Her envelope had hearts where the o's in my name should have been and I tore it open and read her letter right there in the sun. The V-Mail was like onionskin and in the humidity you spent all your time peeling sheets apart and flapping them dry."

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Shepard teaches Creative Writing and Film at Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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He has written seven novels and five short story collections, with more on the way.  He won the Story Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award for his 2007 collection, Like You'd Understand Anyway, and won the Massachusetts Book Award for his 2004 novel Project X.

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Jim Shepard writes from a wide variety of perspectives and uses settings from many eras of history.  These have included Ancient Greek and Cretan societies, both sides in both world wars, fifteenth-century France, etc.