Laura Noggle's Reviews > Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

So much snap, crackle, pop!

Loved this book and will definitely read again — recommend for those interested in the craft of writing.

“So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narratives I’ve been discussing have dealt powerfully with core human matters. … And they have found patterns other than the wave to do this, or worked in a doubled, moiré relation with the wave, one pattern upon another. I believe they’ve done this organically: a meander or net or explosion was simply the pattern the material needed.”