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Chris Cander
Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing
“The psychic burden would’ve been too great if I’d written the story as memoir.”
By
Chris Cander
| February 2, 2024
Required Reading: How My Daughter’s Homework Inspired My Novel
Chris Cander on the Perpetual Relevance of Susan Glaspell's 1917 Story “A Jury of Her Peers”
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Chris Cander
| July 1, 2022
When the Sentimental Clutter in Your Life is a Whole Piano
Chris Cander on the Story That Inspired
The Weight of a Piano
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Chris Cander
| January 24, 2019
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