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Accepting Indeterminacy: Part I of an Interview with Jacob Paul

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

…o, because It’s an absolute. God becomes really absolute. Every religion becomes irrelevant, everything becomes irrelevant. I have this conversation with some of my friends who are more comfortably confirmed in their aetheism than perhaps I am, where we talk about the notion of the play-it-forward computer. If you could build a computer that was powerful enough to account for everything in the universe, could it predict everything that was going t…


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How to Hold a Woman, by Billy Lombardo

by Alison Espach

…as angry at Alan – as he thinks she is. Rather, under Alan’s gaze Audrey becomes uncomfortable and sad. She feels like an outsider in her own family, as though “there are boys and there is a woman,” Lombardo writes. For the reader, privy to moments alone with each character, the dramatic irony builds as we learn that Audrey is capable of communing, Image Credit: Flickr desirous of intimacy. In “The Business of Night,” she walks into her husband’s…


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[QUOTES & NOTES] Next Project Up: NaDoWriYoNoMo

by Steven Wingate

…se you’ve ever written. A bowling metaphor? A baking metaphor? Dabble in a completely new art form to shake up your creative process. Do you like to write fiction, but have never tried poetry? Ever feel tempted to record some first-person monologues on video? Now is a great time to do it. There’s no pressure on you to produce, only the opportunity to play and let your creative sensibilities find a new outlet. It’s a great chance to re-learn the co…


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Shaping Alaska’s Literary Landscape: An Interview with Don Rearden

by JT Torres

…f Alaska-Anchorage. He has also written screenplays and poems and has just completed his new novel, with two more in the works. On icy mornings, the steam rising from his keyboard can fill Bear Valley. JT Torres: John, the protagonist of The Raven’s Gift, loves hunting. The Yup’ik rely on subsistence hunting to survive. At one pivotal point in the novel, a Yup’ik tells John, “A real hunter don’t think about what he hunts. Otherwise the hunted know…


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Learning to Re-See: An Interview with Michelle Ross

by Eleanor Gallagher

…or just certain types of people or certain experiences. There are several examples that come to mind immediately, but I’m hesitant to divulge them because they involve family members who may find it hurtful to see themselves referred to so explicitly even if the point is that writing has made me feel compassion for them. In fiction, I think it’s fair to write about just about anything; in nonfiction, I feel it’s perhaps important to protect the p…


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Go On and Hate Me: The Remarkable Handling of Pity in Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark

by Rachel Howard

…depth of Anna’s real vulnerability. But Anna as narrator doesn’t pause to comment. Of course she wouldn’t. To comment would be to admit that the reader ought to feel sorry for her, and Anna would sooner die. Or is that quite right? That analysis is too simple, I think; it grants both Anna and Rhys far more innocence and naivete than is warranted. Because both Anna and Rhys are shrewdly calculating. Every successful storyteller must be. And every…


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Even an Hour is Helpful: an Interview with Ronna Wineberg 

by Donna Baier Stein

…e that one day it would be published. It was a special pleasure to win the New Rivers competition with a version of a rejected manuscript. The editor at New Rivers Press suggested some changes to the manuscript and asked me to work on the order of stories. I’d labored over the order and was reluctant to change it. As I experimented, though, I realized he was right. New Rivers Press is part of Minnesota State University Moorhead, and MSUM offers a…


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Letting the Tangents Lead You: A Conversation with Chip Cheek

by Steven Wingate

…the staff, as the head instructor, in charge of hiring new instructors and coming up with new programs. I met many of my closest friends there, fellow teachers and staff members—all serious writers—and those people shaped who I am now, and continue to do so from afar. They taught me and challenged me as a writer, and they also showed me how to be. Christopher Castellani, who’s been the artistic director at Grub Street for most of its existence, an…




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