Ten Questions for Lauren Russell
“What’s most fundamental is being able to listen.” —Lauren Russell, author of Descent
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Ten Questions for Ilana Masad
“I have a deeply unhealthy work-life balance in that the Venn diagram of those things is a circle.” —Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers
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Ten Questions for John Elizabeth Stintzi
“Write what you do not know, which I think is particularly helpful because—not to sound too much like Socrates—I’m not really convinced that anyone knows anything.” —John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of Vanishing Monuments
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Postcard From the Pandemic: Tolstoy Under Quarantine
Reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace as part of a virtual book club hosted by Yiyun Li and A Public Space has become a comforting ritual during the pandemic.
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Craft Capsule: Minor Characters
Carter Sickels celebrates the magic of minor characters.
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Ten Questions for Marianne Chan
“I wish I could simply walk into an office every day and feel ready to go, but that’s just not the case for me, and I know that by now.” —Marianne Chan, author of All Heathens
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Ten Questions for Kawai Strong Washburn
“There’s no shortcut. Not for anything.” —Kawai Strong Washburn, author of Sharks in the Time of Saviors
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Ten Questions for Danez Smith
“The book didn’t announce itself to me until 2017, when I went looking for it. I scanned over the poems I had been writing, scanning to see what my brain had been up to without me noticing.” —Danez Smith, author of Homie
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Ten Questions for Jami Attenberg
“In college I had a fiction teacher tell me to make every sentence so good that the reader would have to read the next one. So basic and obvious but I needed to hear it.” —Jami Attenberg, author of All This Could Be Yours
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