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“Some people wore their difference honestly, but my parents were liars,” reads Sarah Manguso from her first novel, Very Cold People (Hogarth, 2022), in this virtual reading event for The Booksmith with author Heidi Julavits. For more from Manguso, read her installment of Ten Questions.
"I wanted to regain control of experiencing my life in time." Heidi Julavits speaks about the inspiration behind her latest book, The Folded Clock: A Diary (Doubleday, 2015), and why bad book reviews prompted her to start the Believer.
Novelist Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishers, discusses how to avoid slipping into the creative undertow of telling too much backstory, which expends precious energy and squanders productivity.
