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A Sense of the Shape: An Interview with Jan English Leary

by Katherine Shonk

…d written them exclusively for years, publishing nearly twenty stories and compiling a collection. However, I knew that novels had a better chance of being published than collections, so I decided to leave my short-story group and to tackle the novel group. Fred Shafer, my long-time mentor, led both groups, so I knew he’d show me the way. I flailed around, writing chapters that seemed to go nowhere. I missed the tight arc of a short story. Then I…


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The Reason to Persist: An Interview with John Warner, Part I

by Philip Graham

…s mouth (John is now working on the screenplay for the movie version). His latest work of fiction is Tough Day for the Army, just out from Louisiana State University Press, a collection of structurally sophisticated and deeply felt short stories that balance empathy and humor with a clear-eyed look at our human foibles. It’s already creating a buzz, with a number of terrific initial reviews, including a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly: Warner…


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Shakespeare, the paywall, and the benefits of copyright

by Celeste Ng

…e of being rewarded for his innovative work. Certainly there’s a place for free creative work online, but that cannot be the end of it. A rich culture demands contributions from authors and artists who devote thousands of hours to a work and a lifetime to their craft. Since the Enlightenment, Western societies have been lulled into a belief that progress is inevitable. It never has been. It’s the result of abiding by rules that were carefully cons…


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Against Cleverness

by Brad Felver

…ed to the written word because the spoken word is so damn humbling. My own brain has to pedal furiously just to keep up with real-time communication, and my responses generally feel sloppy and imperfect. I see it in my students, too. You know what I mean? they often say during class discussions—that rhetorical question and all its humility surfacing yet again. No, I reply when I’m feeling ornery. I only know what you mean when you say it, and you…


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Oddly Familiar: Strangeness as Illumination (Part III: Berriault)

by Christina Ward-Niven

…surprising, unlikely language, the author allows us to see something in a new way, to pay attention in a new way. This is exactly what Shklovsky discusses in “Art as Device”: the idea of making something visible by foregoing conventional labels for less expected language—sometimes even describing something as if it were being perceived for the first time. More explanation for Marie’s actions comes two paragraphs later. But as is Berriault’s way,…


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Obligations and Their Consequences: An Interview with Neil Connelly

by Steven Wingate

…nce of a brick and mortar workshop. How will they build trust? What will become of community? What I found, much to my shock, was just how many of the students coming up now actually prefer the virtual format. In an anonymous survey I began administering, I regularly hear about how students feel more comfortable putting work in front of students they don’t have to face in a classroom. Similarly, students tell me they feel they can be more honest i…


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Not Just Visible But Beautiful: An Interview with Kevin Brockmeier

by Polly Stewart

…Calvino’s case, in my opinion, those would be The Baron in the Trees, The Complete Cosmicomics, The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount, Invisible Cities, and Marcovaldo. By that standard, it seems to me that he’s pretty hard to top, though William Maxwell and Leo Tolstoy are also strong contenders. In your recent talk at Missouri State University, you commented that you like physical books better than screens, and that the Kindle didn’t h…


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Starting with Small Moments: An Interview with Andrew Porter

by Polly Stewart

…you can track down a copy of either of those collections, I’d certainly recommend reading them. And there are some wonderful collections that have come out in the past year—Lori Ostlund’s The Bigness of the World and Laura Van Den Berg’s What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, for example—that really impressed me. And then of course, there are certain established writers who I’d always recommend—Dan Chaon, Charles D’Ambrosio,…


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The Salvage Detective: Roberto Bolaño’s Guide to Saving the Novel In Your Drawer

by Dan Keane

…ot a guarantee of success but simply an invitation to get started. Bolaño knew tourist towns, and he knew demanding Germans from his job as a night watchman for a Costa Brava campground. He knew fascism from his own brief imprisonment during Chile’s 1973 coup. He knew the loneliness of exile, but he knew nationalism like Udo’s made him sick. And he’d doubtless read that Benjamin escaped the Nazis by killing himself in a seaside border town just ni…


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Woman to Woman: An Interview with Mary Gaitskill

by Emily McLaughlin

…received because I can’t control that. In terms of myself, I was trying to comically come at it from as many angles as I could. The feminist author in the story has obviously affected the reporter, in that she made her stop and formulate her own opinions, which cleverly forces the reader to think, “What do I really make of this situation?” Was this a device? Were you intending to get readers thinking about feminist issues? I never think about prov…




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