She left the workshop “worried, but excited” and determined to explore her fascination with Satie in novel form. The story included a huge flash forward that went beyond Satie’s lifetime. It was a bad short story, half of which focused on Satie and half of which had a modern-day protagonist who was plagued by self-doubt,” said Horrocks. 3” in middle school and began looking into his other work. Horrocks studied piano for ten years and worked as an accompanist in college. She settled on an idea based her longstanding interest in composer Erik Satie, whose work she had discovered as a piano student. She was on her way to the workshop and got an e-mail that said she needed to have 12 copies of an unpublished story ready for class in 24 hours. What I didn’t have was a novel-sized idea,” said Horrocks. “I finished my program feeling like I had a grip on the short story form and a passion for it. Caitlin Horrocks, author of The Vexations, had finished her MFA at Arizona State University in 2007 and had been writing short stories for a few years, when she signed up for a summer workshop in 2010.
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