Tag: Art of the Opening

Art of the Opening: Raymond Carver and Crafting a Hook

By CRAFT | Craft, Critical Essays, Classroom | June 2, 2020

I am heaving in the southwestern corner of an open-air outlet mall five days before Christmas. This is the desperate and empty sort of heaving required to stop a sob and close off the valve of emotion. A hiccuping…

Art of the Opening: Melissa Ragsly

By CRAFT | Interviews, Craft, Books, Critical Essays, Classroom | April 7, 2020

In a 2015 review in The Los Angeles Times, the late Pulitzer Prize–winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold describes an amuse-bouche at Le Comptoir in Koreatown as “a course that takes a cook 10 minutes to plate and that you…