A Collective Cast conversation with Prescott author Bruce Paul looks at the tension between reading for pleasure and reading with a writer’s eye.
In the short, Paul takes a closer look at Edgar Allan Poe, craft, and the habits that shape how storytellers experience a page. Close reading and literary curiosity can change the way authors move through a story—what they notice, what they question, and what stays with them long after the last line.
The exchange sits alongside his own completed literary speculative trilogy The Artama Legend, where a boy leaves a town of finished answers in search of what still needs asking. The same thread appears here: the difference between taking a story in and taking it apart.
Watch the reel and hear the full conversation on the Bruce Paul playlist.
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