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The Body and Its Mysteries: An Interview with Elizabeth Earley

by Rosalie Morales Kearns

…language was English. When they first met, my grandmother, Elouise, only knew how to communicate in English and by reading lips. Charles had never known verbal English and his native language was American Sign Language. They got to know each other and fell in love over hand-written notes back and forth—penned conversations over a coffee shop table. Then Charles taught Elouise sign language, but it wasn’t ASL. It was an invented language he made u…


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What’s the Deal with Rick Moody

by Jonathan Callahan

…ard the maximalistic,10 citing a particularly verbose indignation from the latest book, takes Moody to task for his commission of the sort of mistake they teach you how to avoid in “Comp 101.” Image Credit: Flickr Now, having taught a few sections of Comp 101 myself, or writing courses roughly akin, I am willing to concede that this is the sort of thing some of us teach. I have encouraged students, as much as possible, to convey with clarity and c…


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Red Sky in Morning, by Paul Lynch

…century. Naturalism, though, isn’t the intended effect. In an essay on his website, Lynch says he writes in “a new kind of language, a language about language itself.” And in an interview in Publisher’s Weekly, he says he wants to “reinvigorate the novel form,” particularly through his use of language, explaining how “the feel of the words can tell us as much about the world as their meaning.” When I wasn’t sure how a goose could be “gragging,” a…


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The Long Game: An Interview with Sarah Layden

by Barney Haney

…presses. Waiting to hear from editors. Revising, again. Rejection, again. Coming close in a couple contests. Writing a YA novel, another full adult novel, and stories, poems, and essays. Sending the novel out for another round, this time to Engine Books, a new independent press which was developing an impressive roster. Waiting a year or so, and then, finally: acceptance. Followed by revision, of course. A friend recently said to me, “You’re good…


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Red Sky in Morning, by Paul Lynch

…century. Naturalism, though, isn’t the intended effect. In an essay on his website, Lynch says he writes in “a new kind of language, a language about language itself.” And in an interview in Publisher’s Weekly, he says he wants to “reinvigorate the novel form,” particularly through his use of language, explaining how “the feel of the words can tell us as much about the world as their meaning.” When I wasn’t sure how a goose could be “gragging,” a…


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Finding—and Losing—Memories in Fiction

…he memory itself but as memory’s offspring. And that offspring, in turn, becomes the progenitor of new narrative life. Memory, it could be said—memory destined for literary purposes—is at times a hybrid: part fact, yes, but also part myth shaped by time, so the memory can be adapted for the timeless realm of a creative text. Vzpomínky / Memories, by Philip Bitnar We think of writing as springing from memory, when in fact it may be that memory ofte…


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Another Kind of Awareness: Stuart Dybek’s Coast of Chicago

by Kelly Luce

…opulated by shadows and ghosts and as our eyes adjust to the darkness we become aware in a new way. Stuart Dybek Literature we call metaphysical has the same effect. “Farwell” opens not just with a night walk, but goes a layer deeper to the memory of one. Farwell Street is shrouded, the “streetlights smoldering in the fog.” Snow covers surfaces and obscures the usual street-stuff. The story starts in the dark and ends in the dark—even the pages th…


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Poetry for Fiction Writers: Five Recommendations

by Katie Umans

…Oh Pericoli on a boat, a Mongoose, a motorcycle—you can’t draw the gods of New York from New Jersey. Just across the cosseted alley they sit: the gods in the dark, eating fishsticks. 3. MICHELANGELO’S SEIZURE – Steve Gehrke (University of Illinois Press, 2007) For fiction writers who like: Joseph Conrad By writing of disturbed, obsessed, often death-bound artists from Goya to Pollock, Gehrke crafts lyrical biographies – not so much of characters a…


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The Whisper in the Ear: An Interview with Megan Abbott

by William Boyle

…e from New York University. She has taught at NYU, The State University of New York and The New School. Beginning in August 2013, she will be the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Abbott came to Oxford to read from Dare Me in late August. She’s been one of my writing heroes for the better part of a decade now, and I had the good luck to sit down with her over Red Stripes at City Grocery an hour before the reading. Inter…


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Thoughts From the Hopwood Room: David Mitchell, Bird Migration, and the Writing Process

by Brandon Bye

…he morning. “There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.” Rumor has it he’d get started at 6 AM and write non-stop until noon — daiquiri hour. And Stephen King’s output in the 70’s and 80’s, famously fueled by cases of beer and grams of coke, is the result of a type of flow state, a type of staying in the room. I’m still working on my migratory-bird-brain, stay-in-the-room flow state. Usua…




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