“The snake is the whole plot and then the rats are the elements. So the rats have to be fed to the snake in order to nourish the snake.” Fiction writer Annie Hartnett, author of the debut novel Rabbit Cake (Tin House, 2017), is interviewed by Bill Kenower in Seattle for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.
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