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Love, Lucy / Love, Charlotte: An Interview with Charlotte Boulay

by Lucy Biederman

…ever seemed to have it. I’m sorry. Here’s me doing my best to get back in: Charlotte Boulay – photo credit Roger Boulay As I go about this busy life of not writing poetry, when I grab the hours I can to actually write it, I can’t be worried about my own responsibilities to Poetry—that’s too big a burden to carry to the desk. So the responsibilities, can, I think, only be to the words on the page—to the reader who is not myself but not not myself….


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Charlotte Boulay

…Charlotte Boulay grew up in the Boston area and attended St. Lawrence University. She earned her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she taught composition and creative writing for five years. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, The Boston Review, and Crazyhorse, among other journals. Foxes on the Trampoline is her first book, and was published in April 2014 by Ecco Press/HarperCollins….


Essays |

Bishop and Lowell Read Everything

by Charlotte Boulay

…urteen years in a series of “From the Archives” posts. In today’s feature, Charlotte Boulay meditates on Words in Air, the collected correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, and the way reading shapes both our writing and lived experience. This essay was originally published on June 13, 2011. The Reader: A Creature of Habit 1. Aspirations and reassurances From the beginning, I’ve felt like a bit of an imposter as a contributor to…


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Discussion Review Lush Life (by Richard Price) and The Wire

…acute, painful, extraordinary way. What we want from fiction, yes? BA: So, Charlotte, Lush Lifewasn’t like this (the acute understanding of another human) for you? CB: In a lot of ways it was. But somehow it’s not as powerful as The Wire, and I’m not sure why. BA: I agree—does it move too fast? CB: It can’t be the medium, because I feel strongly that many, many texts outweigh screen in their complexity & pathos, but not this one. Yeah, maybe pacin…


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A Valentine: Books We Loved in 2009

by Anne Stameshkin

…t from the beginning of this series with The Thief. Here’s an excerpt from Charlotte Boulay’s upcoming review of this YA novel: …of all the books I’ve read in recent memory, not many compare to this series, which is serial narrative of the best kind—the kind that gets richer and more complex as it develops. There are three novels presently published: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia. A fourth, A Conspiracy of Kings, comes o…


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Fundamentalism and Compassion: An Interview with Jess Row

by Charlotte Boulay

…spoke with Jess Row in his office at The College of New Jersey. Interview: Charlotte Boulay: When did you become interested in fundamentalism? Jess Row: Well, September 11th had something to do with it. Until then I don’t think I had really thought about fundamentalism, and certainly not as an aspect of my own work or something I would want to write about until September 11th. I was still really wrapped up in a more optimistic view of globalizatio…


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Writing with Intuition: An Interview with Hannah Tinti

by Charlotte Boulay

…2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for her editorial work at One Story. Interview: Charlotte Boulay: I’m so happy to meet you because I love The Good Thief so much and I just taught it in a class on writing about visual art. Hannah Tinti: I have photos of visual art I’m going to use in my talk later. Oh, great! Well, in this class we talked a lot about all the great descriptions in the book, and how you represent things visually. Were you inspired by visu…


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AWP in photos

by Lee Thomas

…ael Rudin, Phil Sandick, Jeremiah Chamberlin, Anne Stameshkin, Lee Thomas, Charlotte Boulay, Emily VanDusen, Josie Keenan. Second Row: Emily McLaughlin, Alison Espach, Katie Umans, Erika Dreifus, Drake Misek. Third Row: Brad Kammin, Cam Terwilliger, Steven Wingate. Erika Dreifus and Anne at the book signing for Quiet Americans. Emily, Drake, Michael, and Josie – I think Michael is giving the interns a mini-seminar on branding in this picture. Alis…


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Recently on FWR…

by Anne Stameshkin

…y he keeps the Sears & Roebuck catalogue on his desk. In an interview with Charlotte Boulay, author and One Story editor-in-chief Hannah Tinti talks about some of the inspirations for the world of her debut novel, The Good Thief: When I’m working on something like this—something that has a certain time or place or mood—I have a bulletin board over my desk, and as I come across things that are in that vein, I start tacking them up. I had a couple o…


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FWR's Latest Features: The Biweekly Roundup

by Anne Stameshkin

…terviews, and essays you may have missed on Fiction Writers Review lately. Charlotte Boulay reviews The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, calling it “serial narrative of the best kind—the kind that gets richer and more complex as it develops” and adding, “Even among YA fantasy novels, The Thief is exceptional because it’s a story about adults. These are not the sudden inheritors of magical powers, but people who have carried the weight…




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