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Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character
Create Your Characters and Build Their World in Less Than an Hour
By
Lynda Barry
| December 19, 2019
When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It
Melissa Woods on the Unlikely Intersections of
Child-Rearing and Novel-Writing
By
Melissa M. Woods
| December 19, 2019
How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?
Is it the Mysterious Work of the Unconscious, or the Mechanized Brain?
By
Jim Davies
| December 18, 2019
How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math
Ben Orlin Used Calculus to Fix His Floundering Draft
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Ben Orlin
| December 17, 2019
Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry
Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Teacher Joel Mayo
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Nick Ripatrazone
| December 17, 2019
Confessions of an Undercover Novelist
Abigail Hing Wen on Difficult Family Conversations
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Abigail Hing Wen
| December 16, 2019
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But That's Another Story
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Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?
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| December 12, 2019
The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson's Bedroom
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Julie Dobrow
| December 11, 2019
From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
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“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”
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Freeman's
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Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop
The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature
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Bohumil Hrabal
| December 6, 2019
How Journalism Made a
Poet Out of Me
Gillian Conoley on Objectivity, Reportage, and Truth
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Gillian Conoley
| December 6, 2019
Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children
Pen Parentis Turns Ten!
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Matt Grant
| December 6, 2019
Charles Wright's Resistance Against Certainty
Mary Szybist on the Poetics of Her Former Teacher
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Mary Szybist
| December 5, 2019
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts
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| December 5, 2019
Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write
Caroline Scott on Realizing an Unlikely Family Dream
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Caroline Scott
| December 5, 2019
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