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Short Story Month rec: "Bullet in the Brain"

by Celeste Ng

…e in Boston, and in one session we looked at Tobias Wolff‘s “Bullet in the Brain.” I was surprised at (1) how many people had not read the story–of a group of 30 people, I was one of maybe 5 who had, and (2) how amazing this story really is. So compressed and so focused: crystalline. Perfect for teaching yourself, or others: you can take it apart, sentence by sentence, and figure out why each word is there and exactly how the story is working. And…


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Learning the Left Hand

by J.T. Bushnell

…hink about it, and therefore don’t have to access the higher region of the brain to employ it. It should become so ingrained that it’s intuitive. The only way to accomplish that is to read and learn and think and practice. When I was a high school freshman, our basketball coach made us dribble and shoot layups left handed. At first it required great concentration. We went very slowly, with great awkwardness, and we missed many baskets. By the end…


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Free Books for A Small Price: The Future of E-Reading?

by Michael Rudin

…access to a wide-ranging catalogue, from comic books to novels. Springwise.com recently highlighted the new firm by linking it to popular free ad-based serving platforms in the music world: Just as ad-supported sites like Pandora and Spotify let music lovers listen to and share their favourite music for free, so Spanish 24symbols is gearing up to do something similar for electronic books. With the Wall Street Journal already reporting that Amazon…


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He Was Just There For Me: An Interview with Lily King

by Joshua Bodwell

…in Paris; the novel went on to win the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and become a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. After that, I went directly to King’s The English Teacher (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005), which takes place in the classrooms and homes of a small island community in the northeast. The English Teacher eventually landed on the Chicago Tribune’s Best book of the Year list, as well as Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Best Novels of t…


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On Mystery and Drafting: An Interview with Robert Boswell

by Michael Hinken

…ture. I began to understand—without being able to articulate it—that I was entering new territory. The words looked the same on the page, but reading the words was not at all the same experience. It was thrilling. And it ruined forever the Hardy Boys. I could see how it would. With your roots in Kentucky, do you think of yourself as a regional writer in any way? Does that influence your writing? I’m from the same part of Kentucky as Bobbie Ann Mas…


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Bread Loaf Lectures and Readings Available on iTunes

by Celeste Ng

…e 2008 session are also available, including readings by FWR contributors Steven Wingate and Preeta Samarasan. Click here to open iTunes and browse the offerings. (If you don’t have iTunes, it’s also free—download it here.) For more Breadloaf-related posts on FWR, see: Some thoughts by FWR Contributor Steven Wingate on Bread Loaf Dispatches from Bread Loaf 1, 2, 3, and 4…


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Friends and Memories: An Interview with Myla Goldberg

by Casey Dembowski

…cause I am inside her head. It’s the most comfortable way to get to know a new world and new people. Then, after I’ve been there for a while, I feel restrained by first person. The nice thing about first person is it’s very dynamic and exciting, but the difficulty is that it’s very limiting: you can only see through one set of eyes. Once I have a stronger sense of the story that I want to tell, I want to be able to say more than just one character…


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The Underdog Who Realized He Was on Top: An Interview with Jonas Hassen Khemiri

by Katarina Matsson

…ch a short video about the original English debut of Invasion! at The Play Company in New York, here. Read the New York Times profile of Jonas Hassen Khemiri from September, which describes the Obie-winning play in these terms: If Caryl Churchill, Franz Kafka and Ali G were to goof around one night and play their music too loud until the Department of Homeland Security came knocking on their door, they might emerge (eventually) the next morning ho…


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Character, Then World, Then Plot: An Interview with Alexander Maksik

by Natalie Bakopoulos

…ne feel distant for you now, assuming that you’re involved in the lives of new characters, new stories? She does, yes. Increasingly so. If writing a novel is indeed like entering into a relationship, I think publishing is very much like ending one. Publishing is a bewildering and occasionally wonderful experience. But it has nothing at all to do with writing itself. To hold your book, the object, all those neatly bound pages, is to be reminded tha…




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