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An Ongoing Process: An Interview with Zan Romanoff

by Emma Gordon

…st. In terms of the nonfiction writing you do, you also write a TinyLetter newsletter, which has become a popular format recently. How do you think a TinyLetter is distinct from a blog or an essay? That is something I’ve been thinking a lot about. I have a Twitter, and I have a Tumblr, and I have a TinyLetter, and that can be hard to maintain. That’s a lot of writing for free on the Internet. But, that said, I think they are really distinct. It fe…


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Pretty Monsters, by Kelly Link

by Charlotte Boulay

…Handbag” and “The Hortlak” (from both Magic and Pretty Monsters) on Link’s website. You can also download the majority of stories from Magic For Beginners free! – From Stranger Things Happen and Pretty Monsters, read the excellently creepy “The Specialist’s Hat.” – Here’s a great interview with Link (by Stephany Aulenback) on Maud Newton. (The photo of Link used above is borrowed from this article.) More conversations with the author: Link talking…


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Time as a Malleable Material: Part Two of a Conversation with Charles Yu

by Shawn Andrew Mitchell

…hink that’s necessarily a genre or sci-fi thing. I just read Alice Munro’s latest collection, Dear Life, which I thought was brilliant, and she’s incredible at that—she can jump within a sentence or two back into some character’s distant past. She’s a master of this swirling kind of non-linear way that your mind lives through time. And that’s what I think Nicholson Baker does too. He does it in The Fermata the most explicitly, since it’s about thi…


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Those Magic Carbons: A Conversation with Eileen Pollack

by Brian Short

…e” came about because I noticed when my son was young that many parents I knew had become terrified of touching their children…of touching anyone else’s child. Anything could arouse suspicion. Even having them on your lap, watching them run around naked, just delighting in how beautiful children are as one of the main joys of being a parent. All sorts of weird incidents started happening. Some of us were at a lake one day, and a friend’s daughters…


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Little Tolerance: An Interview with Amanda Goldblatt

by Jennifer Solheim

…working outside of this professionalization. And until more institutions become committed to not financially compromising their own students, it behooves writers of all ages to consider and enact alternative ways to foster and support writing, and art in general. Many people, all over the country, already do this. Now that we’re a few questions in, allow me to get a bit fan girl: this novel is not only exquisite on the sentence level. The narrativ…


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Blog Tour! Bridget McNulty, author of Strange Nervous Laughter

by Anne Stameshkin

…n I think I have a handle on writing, it will shift its shape again, and become something completely different. I suppose that’s the price we pay for trying to force a whole squirming mass of words into a sack. And I’m glad of it, despite my complaints about hard work. If it was too easy, if we writers could just dash off a couple of thousand words in an hour or two and be done with it, it wouldn’t mean as much, would it? I often say that it took…


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Book Blog Tour: Pamela Ehrenberg visits FWR

by Gwen Glazer

…ultiple perspectives to tell the story of a single main event. I actually knew the format of the book before I knew anything about the event or any of the characters. Were some of the voices easier or harder to write? I was pretty self-conscious about writing in poetry, since I definitely don’t consider myself a poet. I’m not so good at making every word count 1000% the way you have to in a poem. But I finally pushed past that by deciding that sin…


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The Magician King, by Lev Grossman

by Leslie Clements

…Fillory is no Narnia, but a world being torn apart by its own gods. The latest installation continues to play with reader expectations. Grossman pushes further into the subversive territory of what real magic looks like and how far Quentin—and readers—will follow. The Magician King picks up where The Magicians left off: Quentin and his friends—Eliot, Janet, and Julia—reign as the kings and queens of Fillory. Peace and idleness grow stale for Quen…


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The Third Son, by Julie Wu

by Daniel Wallace

…er the high society of Miss Havisham’s mansion, he will be happy—the drama comes from his slow, painful process of discovering otherwise. Such complex plotting, of course, is a lot to ask from a debut novel. One learns by doing—the only way to learn how to write a novel is by writing a novel. So my reservations about the plotting of The Third Son are small when compared to Wu’s obvious talent and meticulous research, as well as the quite amazing w…


Essays |

Subject Position as Craft Tool: An Investigation (Part I)

by Leah De Forest

…nters the scene and tells Jerry to move out of the way, seeming “to hate incompetence and the pleasure my incompetence was giving her neighbors.” The tire is soon replaced and Jerry is wearing dry clothes and sipping tea. The scene offers little specific to Vesta Lotte Battle’s person, other than the description: “this dark old woman, scarecrow thin, hands pressed on hips, acting furious with me,” and not much more of her house: just the laundered…




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