{"id":3220,"date":"2012-04-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:17:24","slug":"bullshot-sara-lippmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-sara-lippmann\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Sara Lippmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[break]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>JH:<\/strong> This piece, <a title=\"Houseboy\" href=\"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/sara-lippmann\/houseboy\/\">&#8220;Houseboy,&#8221;<\/a> more than any we&#8217;ve featured, seems like it was a lot of fun to write. Was it? Was it challenging? Was the challenge fun?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[break]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SL:<\/strong> Who can resist a good malapropism? It&#8217;s always fun to play around with language, particularly from the perspective of someone who thinks first in another tongue. It was fun to slip on a male suit, to examine our culture through this outsider lens. That&#8217;s the fun of fiction. In some ways this piece is a departure for me, so that was liberating, although really it&#8217;s the same old story. While the voice came first and fast it also presented certain challenges. I&#8217;ve spent considerable time with Israelis and taught non-native speakers, so an earlier draft more rigidly honored ESL grammar; however, I worried it would feel distracting or get in the way of the story. I didn&#8217;t want the voice dismissed as a mockery. Sure, hopefully, there is humor here. Hopefully, too, the voice reflects the humanity of a young guy of conflicted bravado and mindset adrift in the years post-army. Where it all converges at the end: his story becomes ours. The trick was to locate that fine balance, so that Avital\u2014in all his playfulness and energy, alienation, and longing\u2014could be heard. So that he connects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of <a href=\"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/sara-lippmann\/houseboy\/\">&#8220;Houseboy&#8221;<\/a> talks about taking liberties with language, and the balance between the story&#8217;s humor and humanity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","writer-jarrett-haley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17710,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/17710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}