Lucia Berlin: My Mentor in Being an Outsider
The author reflects on finding a mentor in fellow literary outsider Lucia Berlin, long before Berlin’s fame.
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Agent Advice: Larissa Melo Pienkowski of Jill Grinberg Literary Management
The agent who represents writers TJ Alexander and K. Tempest Bradford, among others, answers questions about being ghosted by agents and how to query for nonfiction books.
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Ten Questions for Blake Sanz
“Trust yourself and your own vision for your work.” —Blake Sanz, author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling
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GalleyCrush: I Came All This Way to Meet You
Jami Attenberg’s I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, forthcoming from Ecco on January 11, 2022.
Ten Questions for Eugene Lim
“I wanted to articulate and be honest to the emotion of grief.” —Eugene Lim, author of Search History
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Craft Capsule: Tiny Doable Things
The author of The Devoted writes about the little things writers can do when a project feels impossible.
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GalleyCrush: The Selfless Act of Breathing
JJ Bola’s The Selfless Act of Breathing, forthcoming from Atria Books on February 8, 2022.
Ten Questions for Angela Hume
“I write poetry when I’m in transit or transition.” —Angela Hume, author of Interventions for Women
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Craft Capsule: The Long Short
The author of The Devoted considers the strengths of the long short story.
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GalleyCrush: Brown Girls
Daphne Palasi Andreades’s Brown Girls, forthcoming from Random House on January 4, 2022.
Ten Questions for Casey Plett
“It was a fever dream process of creation.” —Casey Plett, author of A Dream of a Woman
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Craft Capsule: The Edge of a Scene
The author of The Devoted recommends looking around the edges of a story to locate the unexpected places and times where drama can unfold.
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GalleyCrush: Honor
Thrity Umrigar’s Honor, forthcoming from Algonquin Books on January 11, 2022.
Ten Questions for Mahogany L. Browne
“There was so much shame in this project for me to dispel and bury.” —Mahogany L. Browne, author of I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
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Craft Capsule: Vertigo
The author of The Devoted searches for the unexpected door in her fiction.
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GalleyCrush: Mothers, Fathers, and Others
Siri Hustvedt’s Mothers, Fathers, and Others, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on December 7.
Ten Questions for CAConrad
“The moment you walk away from the conversation with a poem, you lose it, and it will never return.” —CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE
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GalleyCrush: Beasts of a Little Land
Juhea Kim’s Beasts of a Little Land, forthcoming from Ecco on December 7, 2021.
Ten Questions for Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“In the mornings—or when I roll over from a dream—there’s only God and me talking to each other.” —Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
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GalleyCrush: I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat
Christopher Gonzalez’s I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat, forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project on December 1, 2021.
Ten Questions for Kat Chow
“I find it really hard to follow a routine in almost every part of my life.” —Kat Chow, author of Seeing Ghosts
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GalleyCrush: Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone
John Edgar Wideman’s Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone, forthcoming from Scribner on November 9, 2021.
Q&A: Cho Flies Solo With New Agency
Acclaimed author and agent Catherine Cho discusses her start as an agent; her decision to open her own agency, Paper Literary; and her advice for writers daunted by the process of finding representation.
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Endless Work: The Responsibilities and Pleasures of Translation
The author examines her personal relationship to the professional work of translation, forms of responsibility unique to the genre, and the complex notion of translation as a labor of love.
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We Build It Ourselves: A Roundtable on Race, Power, and the Writing Workshop
Felicia Rose Chavez, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Matthew Salesses join Namrata Poddar to discuss decolonizing the writing workshop and the effects of gatekeeping on BIPOC writers.
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