River Selby on Wildland Firefighting, Processing Trauma, and Writing For Your Younger Self

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Hotshot”

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Jessica Francis Kane on Fictionalizing Penelope Fitzgerald’s Mexican Sojurn

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Fonseca”

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Ivonne Lamazares on Crafting a Story of Family, Identity and Belonging in Cuba

Ivonne Lamazares on Crafting a Story of Family, Identity and Belonging in Cuba

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Tilting House”

By Jane Ciabattari | July 22, 2025

Gary Shteyngart on Channeling a Precocious Child Narrator

Gary Shteyngart on Channeling a Precocious Child Narrator

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Vera, or Faith”

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Meg Waite Clayton on Fictionalizing Hollywood’s Blacklist Era

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Typewriter Beach”

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Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Among Friends”

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Guadalupe Nettel on Capturing the (Vaguely) Surreal Side of Contemporary Life

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Lydia Millet on the Challenges of Writing In the Here and Now

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Kate Folk on Writing a Contemporary Tribute to an American Classic

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Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

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Emma Pattee on Imagining the Devastating Aftermath of the “Big One”

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