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Police Composite sketches for literary characters

by Celeste Ng

…and was holding a black hat and a gun…“You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!”… When he smiled he showed a row of strong white teeth…Hunching his shoulders slightly…The Misfit’s eyes were red-rimmed and pale and defenseless-looking. What do you think? Do these sketches match up with how you’d visualized these characters? By the way, the site is accepting suggestions for characters. Who would you li…


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November 15th: Dzanc Write-a-thon

by Anne Stameshkin

…nationally in set communities to provide writing workshops and year round programs for students and adults alike.” Read more about the Dzanc Writer in Residency Programs (DWIRPS) and The Dzanc Prize, two of many ways this press connects writing and publishing with community service and educational outreach. Want to read more about the event itself? Go here. Interested in participating? Send an email to info@dzancbooks.org and receive a donation s…


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Letterpressing Baxter

by Fritz Swanson

…el, brings the poem, and me, crashing to a halt. The umlauted ‘ä’ is not a common character. They say a printer is ‘out of sorts’, and I was, when I had to call one of the world’s last remaining typecasters, Brian Ferret at Mackenzie & Harris of San Francisco to have that umlaut specially cast for this edition. But. “Blended” is as wonderful a word to set as it is to say. Each letter in a drawer of type is a mirror image, in order to print properl…


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Stories We Love: “The Healing Center,” by Catherine Lacey

by Kent Kosack

…nking them, fresh off the synaptic presses. But some of the stories in her latest collection, Certain American States (FSG, 2018), stuck with me even longer, had an outsized impact belying their brevity. “The Healing Center,” a beautiful, enigmatic three-pager in the collection, showcases all of her skills. See, for example, the first paragraph: Sylvia put her hands on her belly and she put her hands on her hips and she faced the mirror and she tu…


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Imagined Landscapes of History: An Interview with David Ebershoff

by Brian Bartels

…magic—filtered through the individual’s emotions and experiences, place is comprised not simply of sensory descriptions but also abstract emotions and images. Yet what about imagined landscapes? Let alone historical ones? How does a writer go back in time to inhabit a past that lives and breathes beyond mere facts, that is tinged and tainted by an individual’s experience in that place? One writer who has managed to accomplish this task exceptional…


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Laying Down the Foundation: An Interview with Landis Blair

by Jennifer Solheim

…tage takes the longest, but it is by far the easiest. It’s interesting: at New York ComicCon, the panel of which you and David were part was titled “Illustrated Narrative.” But that’s something of a misnomer—it’s difficult to encapsulate how language and image work together in graphic novels, because they are part and parcel of one another in telling the story, and often the images supersede the text in storytelling. For example, the passages of T…


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Awayland, by Ramona Ausubel

by Hasanthika Sirisena

…he following headline: “A soldier needed an ear transplant. Doctors grew a new one in her arm.” The accompanying picture—an outstretched arm, the shadow of an ear pushing through the skin at the elbow—makes me wince a little every time I look at it. And I can’t help but wonder: What’s a good fabulist to do when every day the world offers as reality, posits as entirely normal, the surreal images of our nightmares? Ramona Ausubel’s dazzling new shor…


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The Complicating Factor: An Interview with Sara Batkie

by Jesse Hassenger

…dge my thought!” Acknowledged, sir. But I read an article, probably in the New Yorker, that was talking about ice sheets breaking off, and I was like, that’s fucking scary, and what if that happened when people were on it, and the story blossomed from there. Are there other stories you’ve worked on that are set in the future? Yes. Oh, that’s so good, because otherwise that’s a really stupid question on my part. I hesitate to talk too much about it…


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An Interview with Tracy Chevalier

by Kate Lemery

…often an ambitious five a month. How do you choose? The short answer is it comes from personal recommendation, reviews, and stuff that publishers send me that looks interesting. I choose books not randomly but I’m rather like the way I am with television. I never just turn on the television to see what’s on. In the same way, I often go into a book store to see what’s there, but I’m also looking for specific things. I keep a notebook of things that…


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Stories We Love: “Departure,” by Nicholas Delbanco

by Nina Buckless

…shock that floods and fills her chest, but when Joanna, sitting, says, “I knew it, I knew something like this would happen today” she feels a kind of rising release, a sort of confirmation: the gull’s maw and desperate grackles and everything bottoming out. PART II: Claire   In the second section of the piece the reader is introduced to Joanna’s sister, Claire. Immediately, Claire is presented as somewhat opposite of her sister. She is holding her…




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