The Art of Splitting Apart

Writing in fragments

I’ve been thinking about my love affair with the fragment this week as my book, The Art of Brevity, enters the world.

I don’t think of life as a round, complete circle — it’s shaped by fragments, shards, and pinpricks. It’s a collage of snapshots, a collection of the unspoken, an attic full of situations that aren’t easily disposed of. The brevity of flash…