Migrations: A Reading List 6

Migration in its various forms is at the heart of a great many of my favorite plots in fiction. But beyond that it seems to me that migration, as an idea of motion, is inextricable from good fiction. Your characters must change—they must move, psychically at least, from point A to point B—and the plot must move forward.

Short stories and the cell phone: An Interview with writer Barry Yourgrau 1