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How to Write a Sentence, by Stanley Fish

by Daniel Wallace

…syntax. Everything else is content, and the content side of the equation becomes more enormous and chaotic as Fish’s examination continues, because he attempts to contain in it all sorts of things better studied as form. Sentences have rhythm, for example—iambs and the other measured steps of prosody are a kind of form. And a writer’s diction sets the tone as much as how she arranges the words. One of the reasons my imitation of Hemingway doesn’t…


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Studies of Virtuosi: An Interview with Nicholas Delbanco

by Nina Buckless

…t ways, but most of the artists I profiled did their late work in relative comfort, having attained at least a degree of commercial success. Giuseppe de Lampedusa is an exception to this rule—but was, after all, a prince. We are told tales warning against the impatience of youth – the myth of Icarus, for example – so why do so many of us still “put the cart before the horse” so to speak? Young Icarus who flew too high—defying the instructions of t…


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Literary Life on the Black Sea: The 2009 Sozopol Fiction Seminar

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

…an Arthur, Elizabeth Kostova, and translator Boris Deliradev during the Welcome Address for participants Elizabeth Kostova reads a selection from her forthcoming novel, The Swan Thieves, with her Bulgarian translator, Yordan Kosturkov Kodi Scheer after the welcome ceremony. To her left, Maya Sloan speaks with Alexandra Chaushova (facing camera). Elizabeth Kostova with Milena Deleva, Managing Director of EKF The patio of the Diamanti hotel After th…


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Writing the Complexity of Happiness: An Interview with Sherrie Flick

by Michelle Ross

…: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story; Flashed: Sudden Stories in Prose and Comics; New Micro; Sudden Fiction; Flash Fiction Forward; and Flash Fiction Funny. She’s a senior lecturer in Chatham University’s MFA and food studies programs and the series editor for The Best Small Fictions anthology. Interview: Michelle Ross: There’s a lot of inventorying in these stories. The collection’s title kind of evokes taking inventory, too, maybe because it ca…


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Consequences and Resonances: Talking with Laura Catherine Brown

by Hillary Jordan

…nd poignant exploration of the complex ties of family. Laura in turn has become one of my most valuable and thoughtful readers for new work, plus a very dear friend for ten-plus years now. We talk about literature and craft all the time, so this conversation was a natural extension. I didn’t show her the questions beforehand—I thought surprising her would make the interview more compelling, both for us and for our audience. Interview: Hillary Jord…


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Many Things Are Wonderful

by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

…my friends. And who was this new teacher? Sally was young—younger than we knew, not long out of college. She was compact, and strong. She walked and gestured like the dancer she was, every move, even raising her arm to write on the chalkboard, imperious, definite, sharp. She wore simple velveteen jumpers, like tunics, over black tights and black jerseys, always ready for a dance rehearsal. Sally worked us hard, took us seriously, but the classroom…


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Imagination Pointing Backwards: An Interview with Mikhail Iossel

by Ian Ross Singleton

…aly, and elsewhere. He teaches at Concordia University in Montreal. In his latest collection, Love Like Fire, Love Like Water (Bellevue Literary Press), Iossel writes about the Soviet Union in what he calls “a foreigner’s English.” As the writer of a novel about navigating identity through language, specifically Russian, I was eager to talk to Iossel not only about his work, but also this element of his writing practice. We discussed how to put me…


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Earn your internet access—by writing

by Celeste Ng

…ome of the ones we’ve covered: Written Kitten provides you with photos of cats as you write Stop writing with Write or Die, and the program will nudge you to continue, play an irritating noise until you start again, or delete your work—depending on how masochistic you feel Aherk! will download a compromising photo of you to your friends—unless you meet your writing goals Plenty of apps and plug-ins, like Leechblock and Self-control, will shield yo…


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Which are greener: paper books or ebooks?

by Celeste Ng

…ry time you download and read an electronic book, rather than purchasing a new pile of paper, you’re paying back a little bit of the carbon dioxide and water deficit. The actual operation of an e-reader represents a small percentage of its total environmental impact, so if you run your device into the ground, you’ll end up paying back that debt many times over. […] Palmer goes on to analyze how much carbon dioxide, water, and other chemical produc…


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Unanswered Questions: An Interview with Dan Chaon

by Danielle Lazarin

…s that the characters themselves cannot solve. How did you, as a writer, become comfortable with leaving questions unanswered in your stories? DAN CHAON:My fascination with unanswered questions started early on. As a kid, I loved ghost stories, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon. I also had a soft spot for the boy detective genre of children’s fiction—Hardy Boys, The Three Investigators, etc.—but I always felt disappointed by the resolutio…




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