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“How Do They Explain Themselves to Themselves?” Stacey D’Erasmo on Writing a Financial Crime Novel

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“You Find a Way to Be Distinctive.” George Saunders on His Writerly Evolution

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Andrea Barrett on Needing Stories to Weave Together the “Jumble of Perceptions”

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Remembering the Late Novelist, Short Story Writer, and Poet Kevin McIlvoy

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Katie Runde on Trusting the Reader Will Extrapolate

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Eric Nguyen on Inverting the Stereotype of the “Other”

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Jamil Jan Kochai on Writing About Violence

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How Chinelo Okparanta Examines the Co-opting of the Black African Body in Her New Novel

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"It’s Not Magic, But it Feels Magical." Remembering the Late Poet James Longenbach

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Charles Baxter on the Many Parts of the Writer’s Mind

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Lidia Yuknavitch is Embarking on a New Form of Storytelling

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