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Mentors, Muses, and Monsters event at Greenlight Books

by Anne Stameshkin

…nder Chee, Mary Gordon, Martha Southgate, and Lily Tuck Hosted by Beatrice.com’s Ron Hogan A cavalcade of local authors kicks off our new series of Blogger/Author Pairings, in which a literary blogger hosts a real-world reading. Pioneering blogger Ron Hogan, creator of Beatrice and book industry journalist for GalleyCat, hosts this event for a new anthology exploring the varied relationships of writers with those who have influenced them, for bett…


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A Finely Focused Lens: An Interview with Josh Weil

by Mary Westbrook

…small room, Weil wrote the bulk of The New Valley. Published in 2009, The New Valley was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. The book also won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New Writers Award from the Great Lakes Colleges Association, and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation. Weil earned his MFA from Columbia University and has received a Fulbright grant and fel…


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The Forbidden Thought: A review of Zone One, by Colson Whitehead

by Michael Rudin

…Paperwork. They begin killing time in addition to killing zombies. In this New New York, rather than get promoted or own a home in the Hamptons, the end-goal is to survive, a calling Spitz believes he was born and bred for. In his own words, Spitz was a “survivalist” from a young age who “…had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre, rendering him perfect.” Trained to evade zombies…


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Sparta, by Roxana Robinson

by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

…nd families of one war, and all wars. She speaks for her father and mine, for all the daughters and mothers, the sons and fathers. Further Links and Resources: For more on Roxana Robinson and her work, please visit the author’s website. In 2009 the New York Times profiled authors about their writing spaces. Robinson was one of them. Check out where she writes. It might surprise! Listen to Roxana Robinson discussing Sparta on On Point earlier this…


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It’s All Story: An Interview with Danielle Lazarin

by Lee Thomas

…g else.” That’s kind of New York in a nutshell. Can we talk a little about New York? Your New York—you grew up there. You’re very much of the place—as is Back Talk. ‪Let’s talk about this dirty, vibrant city, yes. It’s funny, because I’m living in Manhattan, which is what most of the rest of the country thinks about as “New York,” for the first time in my life. I see that, but I grew up in Riverdale, which is in the Bronx, in a house with a yard,…


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Polish Until You’re Crazy: An Interview with Joshua Max Feldman

by Jesse Hassenger

…Marilynne Robinson has so much reverence for Iowa—it means so much to her. Do you think that feeling comes out more, living in New York? I feel like as much as I love New York, it makes me want to write about places that aren’t New York. Definitely. New York is so all-encompassing, and you start to forget there are other places that are completely different from New York. It’s not nostalgia, exactly, but it’s nice to remind yourself that there’s a…


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Crowded Geography: An Interview with Brittani Sonnenberg

by Danielle Lazarin

…first therapy chapter that’s written as a play and wanting for it to be a completely new landscape. I wanted something that made me feel the way when you step off a plane somewhere in a totally new place, and you just have to fumble and draw on your best resources to meet the place head-on. I think sometimes I do have a real craving or appetite for those strange places and for feeling new in them and the thrill of feeling new in them. So that pro…


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Under the Influence… of Sands Hall

by Erika Dreifus

…also called Tools of the Writer’s Craft (and the subject of this Q&A on my website). So if I were to begin leading workshops again, I could simply study my copy of Tools of the Writer’s Craft. But I’d much rather visit one of Sands’s classrooms and experience anew the magic of a workshop that “works” so beautifully. To be once again “under the influence” of the gracious, generous, and gifted Sands Hall. Further Reading: Learn more about Sands Hall…


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The essence of a story

by Celeste Ng

…stories by artist Christian Jackson. Here are a few more: Image via artist website Image via artist website What I love most about these—aside from the obviously amazing graphic design—is the way each poster strips the story down to its most basic elements. It’s the visual version of the old writing exercise: can you tell your story in one paragraph? One sentence? One word? Here, each story is condensed into one image. You can see all of Jackson’s…


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Writer and Critic in One: An Interview with Jenny Shank

by Steven Wingate

…ndergarten and my son is in preschool, that will be a good time to start a new novel. I don’t want to complain, though—I am enjoying this time of my life, looking after my kids, and I am patient toward it. I’m working on a short story collection and I’ll start the next novel when I find the time. Further Links & Resources: Read Jenny Shank’s book reviews and award-winning criticism at NewWest.net/books Visit Shank’s website for links to her fictio…




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