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Quotes & Notes: Writers’ Notes

by Steven Wingate

…ur ongoing inner dialogue about how to revise our work and bring it toward completion. I’ve argued elsewhere on FWR that revision can’t simply be a matter of moving words around or cutting them to achieve some mythical perfect tautness. Each revision needs to have a controlling idea, and our synthesizing notes can help us shape that. Narrator needs to notice the city more or Show the shared history of Sam and Dave. These notes, if we cultivate the…


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Fictionalizing the Real: A Conversation Between Allison Amend and Michelle Hoover

by Michelle Hoover

…Lehman College and the Red Earth MFA. Born and bred in Iowa but quickly becoming a New Englander (for the last decade and a half), Michelle Hoover lives and works in Boston where she is the Frannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University and leads the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program, a year-long MFA-level intensive course in the novel. Her first novel, The Quickening, was a Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read.” She is a 2014 NEA Fello…


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Quotes & Notes: In Praise of Perpetual Self-Reinvention

by Steven Wingate

…ion, since it’s sticky and can potentially derail us from all we hope to accomplish. But if we simply move from one project to the next, tacitly assuming a static writerly identity that we do not question, then we may miss out on our best chances to set new challenges for ourselves and grow. This principle can apply not only when we publish books, but when we move from project to project. This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t think about what to wri…


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How Fiction Works Discussion Review: Telling vs. Untelling Details

by Celeste Ng

…asis) As a writer, do you find Wood’s argument about detail to be revolutionary? If you’re a detail freak, do you now feel liberated to put more in to create “the atmosphere of the real”? Or is Wood simply stating the obvious here—that some details can be “telling,” but that often, details are needed simply to make the fictional world seem more realistic and lifelike?…


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Bridges and Barriers: Polyphony and Its Translation in Nathacha Appanah’s The Last Brother

by Jennifer Solheim

…brothers. David, meanwhile, escapes from prison with Raj’s help, and so becomes completely dependent on Raj’s assistance to navigate and attempt to flee the island. In the latter third of the story, the boys seek a port in which there is, allegedly, a ship bound for Palestine, which David calls Eretz (presumably short for Eretz Yisrael, a common name for the Jewish promised land before the state of Israel was established). This port is never foun…


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Balance and Coherence: An Interview with Lydia Davis

by Sofie Verraest

…inly I have thought that maybe I should drop everything, stop writing, and simply protest permanently in Washington, D.C., outside the White House, which is making such devastatingly bad choices. And perhaps I should. Maybe I’m being a bit cowardly by staying home in my warm, comfortable house, and continuing to write. And what will happen to what I write now, anyway? For a while it might be read, while “business as usual” continues, though it sho…


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Safe and Sound: The Indelible Narratives of Lucia Berlin

by Jennifer Solheim

…her sons to give her writing time. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Welcome Home alongside a new collection of Berlin’s short stories, Evening in Paradise, on the same day as the midterm elections last week. A knowing wink from the publisher to the politics that these books contain? Perhaps. The American fervor over both Ferrante’s and Berlin’s works and lives was already underway before the 2016 US presidential election, helping build up a go…


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Psychogeographies: A Conversation with Steven Wingate

by Melissa Scholes Young

…liness of life.” This intrusion of grief is relentless in Steven Wingate’s latest novel, The Leave-Takers; it is a novel ripe for pandemic reading and a gift of solace. The living and the dead are constant companions as protagonists Laynie and Jacob crash into each other and scratch their way to healing. Each carries heavy heartache through art, addiction, love, and hope. It’s the cracks in their sorrow that help each other see the light and the f…


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Quotes & Notes: In Praise of Perpetual Self-Reinvention

by Steven Wingate

…ion, since it’s sticky and can potentially derail us from all we hope to accomplish. But if we simply move from one project to the next, tacitly assuming a static writerly identity that we do not question, then we may miss out on our best chances to set new challenges for ourselves and grow. This principle can apply not only when we publish books, but when we move from project to project. This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t think about what to wri…


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An Interview with Joyce Hinnefeld

by Kate Racculia

…ction. I structure my weeks (and my budget) with part-time jobs, volunteer commitments, freelance and teaching assignments, so that they’re not interminable periods of “well, you could/should be writing” stress, but defined and discrete. I try to remind myself that the writing itself is the thing, its own reason and its own reward; it doesn’t have to be or mean anything other than what it means at the moment that I’m doing it. Frequently those tim…




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