Publishers Weekly asks author Annie Dillard, “Isn’t it hard to kill off your own characters and writing?”

I’ve made the decision many times. Of course, I always save them in a file. And then I got to the part that was really interesting: shaving the book by the syllable. If there was a three-syllable word, I’d say, is there a two syllable word for this, etc. That was really fun.

Dillard has a new novel coming in June called, The Maytrees.