A few years ago, American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt stumbled across a story by US author Maile Meloy. She was captivated, and immediately purchased the writer’s two collections of short stories, Half in Love (2002) and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (2009). In Meloy’s Montana-based prose, Reichardt found all of the ingredients she looks for in a narrative. “They had really strong characters,” she tells AnOther, on the phone from New York. “They introduced a…
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