Sort of wish literary arts was like music. Like, writers cover other writers then we argue about who did it better. I'd cover Amy Hempel, no question. Feel like lots of people would cover Denis Johnson's Emergency. That story might be the lit equivalent of Hallelujah.

To "The Great Conversation!" 🥂 writing as literary-Ekphrasis, or personal translations of other writers/poets that wouldn't necessarily be satire/parody. (I talk about variations of this in my column.)

I vaguely tried to do this a while back (naming an anthology Cover Stories was too obvious not to do!) but I found there was a block inherent in there, between admiration for the source and your own writing purpose. Like the love it takes to try increases the distance to success.

I teach Emergency every semester and it never fails to get a interesting reaction.