Ten Questions for Jessie van Eerden
“I found the creation of cohesion challenging; essays are disparate things, yet the book needs to make a whole.”—Jessie van Eerden, author of Yoke and Feather
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Ten Questions for Sharon Wahl
“Do a lot of people feel this monogamous guilt in their writing lives?”—Sharon Wahl, author of Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances
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Ten Questions for Steve Wasserman
“Never let the pursuit of perfection be the enemy of the good.” —Steve Wasserman, author of Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays
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Hybrid Writing and the Story Without an Ending
The author of The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain contemplates how hybrid writing can capture ongoing stories without neat endings.
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Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: How to Write the Unbearable Story
The author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction confronts the question every writer inevitably faces: Is my compulsion to tell the truth stronger than my fear of the consequences?
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Wanderer & Wonderer: A Q&A With Victoria Chang
The author of With My Back to the World talks about the importance of staying true to who we are while allowing the writing to tell us where to go, and how she views her work as a mapping of her changing mind and perception.
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Blessed Citation
The author of The White Mosque offers an ode to intertextuality.
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An Authentic Conversation With Your Reader
The author of Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation considers the link between the author’s emotional state while writing and the reader’s engagement.
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On Writing About Books: Ten Pro Tips for the Freelance Reviewer
A poet and critic who has written dozens of reviews for newspapers, literary journals, magazines, and websites offers practical advice for reviewers who want to show their readers what a book looks like through their eyes.
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Your Reader and the Unconscious
The author of Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation offers a psychoanalytic approach to imagining the reader.
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