Prof. Andrew Furman's New Story and Interview in Potomac Review

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Furman on a new story and an interview.

Furman's story, “Crawling,” appears in the Potomac Review, 73 (Fall 2023): 143-59. In an interview, Professor Furman and interviewer Caleb Berer "discuss 'small and seemingly unpromising' beginnings, the present landscape of Jewish-American literature, quietude, and, naturally, the state of Florida."

An exerpt:

Berer: How did this story begin for you? With an image, a phrase, the first line? More generally, do your stories tend to originate in similar ways?

Furman: Crawling” started for me when I imagined the main character, Veronique, and her place in the world, this wintry backwater in Maine. Character and place (and maybe setting, more generally) are almost inextricably connected for me. I can’t really say that one element comes before the other in my creative process. I also knew that she would be a swimmer. I had this image of her wrapped in layers, tromping along a snow-crusted sidewalk on the way to a pre-dawn swimming session at her local Y. That’s all I really had.  [ . . . ]