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Nothing Is Free: Robert Stone’s Fun with Problems

by Frank Freeman

…Prosser, American artists, the provincial aspects of everyday culture—and simply sit on the bench with his art supplies, he’s finally been able to simply observe life. To appreciate it for what it is, rather than what he thinks it should be. In short: to quit being a critic. To be an artist instead. And, in doing so, he is able to also take compassion on himself. The feeling I had when I finished this story was one I would describe as sweet. The…


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Quotes & Notes: Peering and Leaping into the Author/Character Vortex, Part 1

by Steven Wingate

…ying to tell me, I don’t know and can’t know, but chances are that I won’t come up with any new ones. They aren’t coming out of the vortex anymore, and any not already “alive” would feel like stock characters. I am sad about this, but must accept that their rising from my imagination to my mind is part of the fiction process—a necessary by-product of the interaction between me and the characters who carry my psychic DNA. For years I was deeply ash…


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To Those Poor Souls Who Dwell in Night

by Daniel Wallace

…e semester ends, with no teacher to “derange” their fiction, to say if the latest wild addition works or not. Kiteley advises writers to be the final judge of their stories’ quality, but this leaves them back where they started. Kiteley’s stress on experimentation probably helps his ex-students seem more mature in their writing—they know more tricks—but he skips a crucial stage. Student writers, via this method, progress from a novice sensibility…


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An Interview with Laura Thomas

by Ian Ross Singleton

…d and studied, that it’s a hard question for me to answer. Well, who’s the latest? I’m teaching William Gay a lot right now. And ZZ Packer is another writer I’m teaching a lot. I’ve been reading her stories very carefully for the way she uses—since you asked specifically about place—how place and situation just completely bring people’s troubles and the way people act to the foreground, both in comic ways and also deadly serious ways. She’s a big…


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Coming into the Present: An Interview with Nancy Kilgore

by Kim Church

…s and preconceptions about men, Frank from his need to keep running, and a community learning to be free from the fears that divide it. What do you read when you’re working on a novel? Whose writing influenced this book?—if that question applies. Nancy Kilgore (Photo by Kathy Tarantola I’m always reading novels. I read mysteries as well as literary novels, and everything I read, good, bad, or indifferent, seems to teach me something about writing…


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Going Deep: An Interview with Ellen Prentiss Campbell

by Dorothy Reno

…establish. Eliza, unhappy in her job at a nearby clinic (she’d prefer the freedom of private practice) hangs on for medical insurance and a predictable paycheck, wanting a stable life for her troubled teenage son, Nick. Eliza, like Frieda before her, has some unhappy secrets of her own. She confides in Frieda’s portrait (mounted prominently in the cottage), appealing to her fellow healer for inspiration in dealing with Nick’s increasingly risky b…


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The Mysteries of Narrative Movement: An Interview with Peter Turchi

by Robert Boswell

…Press), is also about the craft and art of writing fiction, but it takes a new tack, examining the process of writing through the lens of puzzles and puzzle-making. Picture a study lined with bookcases burgeoning with leather-bound volumes, the two of us nestled in leather chairs the color of sunrise, a slow moving ceiling fan spinning softly above our heads, chilled mugs of golden ale in our hands. (We actually did the interview by email, but I’m…


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Swimming with Strangers, by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

by Brian Short

…everyday life. A thoughtful interview with Lunstrum on the Chronicle Books website. Read an excerpt of “Familial Kindness,” one of the stories from Swimming with Strangers, and a Q&A with the author at One Story. Download the title story from Lunstrum’s first collection, This Life She’s Chosen, in PDF form. Order copies of Swimming with Strangers, This Life She’s Chosen, and The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Writers on Forerunners in Fi…


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Journal of the Week: BOMB

by Michael Rudin

…ce of their work to one another. BOMB offers readers a chance to encounter new writers and new writing, while learning something new about writers they only thought they knew. While for writers, it provides a forum for authors and poets to talk without the filter of journalism. It’s still amazing for me sometimes to look at our hundreds of interviews with writers over the last 30 years, writers who are now firmly established in the canon of contem…


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Pragmatist Utopia? The Launch of a National Digital Public Library

by Leah Falk

…orating out-of-print books that are still under copyright. Eventually, the website says, it will “explore models for digital lending of in-copyright materials.” That may sound hairy, but it isn’t new; even your local library may have a version of digital lending, in which an e-book “times out” after you’ve had it for a certain period of time. It’ll be a while before you can use the DPLA to access your favorite Alice Munro from an Internet café in…




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