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Don't Look Back: The Problem With Backstory

by Benjamin Percy

The Literary Life

November/December 2012

<p>Fiction writer Benjamin Percy cautions beginning writers to avoid overusing backstory in their fiction, offering strategies for moving the story forward by slipping a character’s history into the dramatic present.</p>

Junot Díaz Records Audio of His New Book, This Is How You Lose Her

Ever wonder how an audio book is created? Watch this exclusive video of Junot Díaz recording the opening lines of his short story collection, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead Books, 2012), which is featured in the Page One section of our September/October 2012 issue.

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Daily News

Melville House wonders when publishers will speak out about Amazon; New York City's Algonquin Hotel announced that when it reopens this spring after a renovation, the famed Oak Room will be gone; E. B. White answers a charge levied by the ASPCA; and more

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Daily News

Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, as well as Surrealist artist and poet Dorothea Tanning, passed away yesterday in their respective countries; novelist Paul Auster has engaged in a war of words with Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey; Open Letters Monthly examines the hidden life of Virginia Woolf's institutionalized half-sister, Laura Makepeace Stephen; and other news.

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Postcard

An evening with the novelist Carolyn Chute is wonderfully unliterary. This is especially true when she is reading in her native Maine.

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Finding the Centers

by Frank Bures

Feature

January/February 2008

A profile of mathematician and fiction writer Manil Suri who discusses his novel <i>The Age of Shiva.</i>
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