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Mark O’Connell’s Intimate Portrait of a Murderer
“It’s the most complicated relationship I’ve ever had.”
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John Hendrickson Tells the Truth
Hendrickson's new book, 'Life on Delay,' shows the thorny, complicated reality of stuttering.
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Searching for Clues: The Millions Interviews Lynne Kaufman
"I like brevity, compression, flashes of things."
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The Lighter Side of Dan Chaon
I had a dystopian idea in the beginning, and in the end the dystopia caught up with me.
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Ada Limón and the Poetry of Rebellion
You know what? I’m 45, and I get to write whatever poems I want.
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Welcome to the Future: On Jennifer Egan’s ‘The Candy House’
We can quantify human experience but where does individuality fit in? We are predictable creatures, yet there’s a marvelous unknowability about us.
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Lan Samantha Chang Channels Dostoyevsky in Her Latest Novel
Lan Samantha Chang discusses her fourth novel, an homage to The Brothers Karamazov, as well as balancing writing with teaching and motherhood.
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Sarah Manguso Takes a Novel Approach
Despite the fact that I’ve spent my entire career saying I would never write a novel, I realized this was the form I needed.
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At Home with Gish Jen
In her forthcoming story collection, Thank You, Mr. Nixon, Jen charts the lives of characters caught between the home they know and the homeland they don’t.
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Jay Caspian Kang Wants to Provoke You
I hope there’s some criticism of the book, even bad reviews of the book. It was written as a way to start a lot of arguments that I think need to be out there. And I’m okay with being criticized.
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Amitava Kumar on Fiction, Truth, and Fake News
The state is a writer of bad fiction. They would be shut down in a fiction workshop. My fiction must be more protean, more imaginative, more accurate than what the state produces.
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Living on the Margins with Ruth Ozeki
It’s like my mind is a camera, and when I write a scene, I’m visualizing the angle of the shot, and the framing, and the movement.
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The Venom of Snakes: On Diane Williams
When asked if stories come more easily now than they used to, Williams explodes with laughter. “No,” she says. “Oh no. No no no no no. They don’t come easily. No.”
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Joshua Ferris Writes a Work of Hope
We are sustained by certain illusions until the day we die. Those fictions are dearly held and deeply felt, and without them life would not be worth living.
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Alison Bechdel and the Secret to Human Transformation
It feels so good emotionally and psychically to get to that state where I am not trapped in my stupid annoying self, but I am in that flow state where my self is blessedly silent and I’m just part of something bigger.
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Dreaming in the Dark
De Robertis envisioned The President and the Frog as “a love letter to anyone who’s ever felt despair,” she says, “or anyone who looks at climate change, or the spike in open racism, or just the difficulty of navigating daily life in our world.”
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Freedom On Her Mind
"But once I started to think about cruelty as being compressed space or choices, humiliation or violence, its opposite seemed to be freedom. Then I became interested in writing about it. There’s no more vexed word, with all the things freedom means to different people.”
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