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Notes on Paying Attention: An Interview with Adam Haslett

by Kate Levin

…regulations—how a collapse like that could happen? Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Image from Wikimedia Commons (photo credit: Dmadeo) It was disorienting, because I’d spent so long thinking and worrying over what level of detail to go into on these subjects in the book itself, and wondering if anybody would even care about the Fed or banks. It was disorienting, because it was such an outsized event for everybody, and yet for me, when I started…


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Writing as Bricklaying: An Interview with Miriam Polli

by Donna Baier Stein

…ey in the New Yorker and loving him. So I asked Gardner how a writer could compromise their “art” and have commercial success at the same time. Boy, was I bold. Such literary pretension! He was very gracious, though, and asked me to send him a story or two. Of course, I ran home and retyped the stories and sent them to him the next day. (I was afraid he’d forget he’d told me to send them.) Six months later, only two months before he was killed in…


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The Project is Nothing, The Process is Everything: An Interview with Judith Claire Mitchell

by Chloe Benjamin

…real life. I think it’s really difficult to write a funny book—but did it come naturally to you? The jokes come naturally. I never stopped and thought, Okay, I need a joke here. What will it be? The puns—they just pop into my head. Normally, whether in fiction or in real life, I try to ignore them, but this time I just stuffed every last one into the book. Go big or go home. I loved the puns. When your puns about Natan Frankl really kick into gea…


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Mannequin Girl, by Ellen Litman

by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

…it dutifully for eight years, aspiring to perfect posture. She yearns to become a beauty like her mother, to become an actress (one of her mother’s many thwarted dreams), to become a “Mannequin Girl.” Within a school culture where everyone has scoliosis and wears a brace, the braces become unremarkable, almost invisible. But when Kat ventures outside she is reminded of her difference. No wonder boarding schools are among the favorite settings for…


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My Inner Erma: Embracing Humor Writing

by Heather Ryan

…, couldn’t bear to feel alone in the middle of the night while waiting for news—any news. So her best solution was to make us play the Longest Game of Monopoly in History—a solution both tragic and comic. The best humor does that. It reveals a character rather than hides him; it unveils the essence of a situation rather than dress it up. And it does it in a way that makes the reader and the writer vulnerable. At its best, humor is an invitation in…


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The Sounds of the River – A Lost Anthology (Folk Devil Records)

…e. Many of the lyrics are prophetic in tone. Several, such as “The River’s Coming into Her Time,” warn of imminent flood. Granted, apocalyptic prophesy is no new thing in roots music, especially the North American variety. The Pilgrim Fathers came to God’s country looking for a place to face the end of the world. 17th century England was so overrun with Baptists, Anabaptists, Diggers, Levellers, Socinians, Ranters, Muggletonians, and Quakers that…


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Get Writing: On Desire

…n’t keep saying, “I want X, I want X, I want X” Rather, just talk about the thing you want, in all its desirable specificity. Let yourself get caught up in all that wanting. If you get stuck, reread the first few paragraphs of Lolita. Eileen Pollack is the author of Breaking and Entering; The Rabbi in the Attic And Other Stories; In The Mouth; Paradise, New York; and Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull. She lives in…


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Why Teach Book Reviewing? or, How Penn State Graduate Students Become Responsible Literary Citizens: a guest post by Robin Becker

by Celeste Ng

…tuition waivers. […] In fact we are not retracting but expanding, with two new degree options in the works–an integrated BA/MA creative writing degree and a combined MFA/PhD–in addition to our traditional two-year MFA. […] In these difficult times in which many universities are facing budget cutbacks, ours is a triumph of persistence and support for the creative literary arts. Want to read more thoughts on reviewing? Browse our archives: – “Some T…


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YOU'VE GOT TO RE-READ THIS: Moominsummer Madness, by Tove Jansson

by Charlotte Boulay

…full while they hibernate, and we follow the strange little creatures who come out in the snow. A comet and an ocean voyage begin two other books, and always Jansson makes us aware of the trees, the rain, the moon that (in English at least) seems to give her dreamy title family their name. Most children’s books manage to impart some kind of message; the measure of any book is how well it manages to make you forget that there is any message in it….




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