If I were asked to choose (hypothetically) one book to take with me into solitary exile on an island, I’d ask if I could bring my fishing tackle instead. But if that wasn’t allowed, I would choose the heaviest anthology of short stories I could find. Maybe The Story and its Writer edited by Ann […]
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So I get home last night after guest-teaching in a friend’s fiction workshop (warm room, sleepy-eyed undergraduate students — but I come home riled up, because evening classes always do that to me, all the more when the students are quiet). I log onto an online discussion from my own MFA program about Our Story
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My first love was journalism: the kind of writing you get paid to do, usually. With a side of travel writing: also fairly marketable. My second love was novel-length fiction: hard to sell, but I managed to do it. (Will lightning strike twice? Still hoping!) In 2008/2009 I took a little detour into screenland and
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