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• • Influences: An Interview with Tobias Wolff
    
  • Sometimes Taking Things Out Counts as Writing: an Interview with Celeste Ng
    
  • Part of a Bigger Conversation: An Interview with Rebecca Makkai
    
  • Interesting Problems: An Interview with Brad Watson
    
  • Starting with Small Moments: An Interview with Andrew Porter
    
• • Complicating Your Conflict
    
  • A Boy and His Dogma: On Philip Roth’s “The Conversion of the Jews”
    
  • A Writer Awakens: On ZZ Packer’s “Brownies”
    
  • Realism in Action: The Art of Invisibility in Amy Tan’s "Rules of the Game"
    
  • The Real Question
    
• • We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo
    
  • Orientation, by Daniel Orozco
    
  • The Lost Girls of Paris, by Pam Jenoff
    
  • Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
    
  • Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin
    
• • Stories We Love: “Sticks,” by George Saunders
    
  • Stories We Love: “The Great Silence,” by Ted Chiang
    
  • Stories We Love: “The Summer People,” by Shirley Jackson
    
  • Stories We Love: “White Angel,” by Michael Cunningham
    
  • Stories We Love: "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver