Ten Questions for Julia Elliott
“The short story form offers me a way to indulge my obsessions and experiment with various genres and narrative modes.” —Julia Elliott, author of Hellions
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How the Light Gets In: The Anglerfish
Inspired by the bioluminescence of the anglerfish, the author of Something New Under the Sun encourages writers to furnish their own light and plumb the unknown depths of their text with the hunger of a deep-sea predator.
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Somewhere Somebody Is Doing Something Right Now
The author of peep offers an exercise in negative capability.
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Real Person, Imagined Scene
The author of Selected Books of the Beloved investigates the uses of specificity in narrative poetry.
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Craft Capsule: Pet Sitting
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat leverages his intrusive thoughts from pet sitting for fiction.
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Craft Capsule: Night Call
The author of Love and Other Poems describes a special project in which he read his poetry to strangers in their bedrooms.
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Craft Capsule: The Art of Literary Criticism
The author of Each of Us Killers shares a manifesto for literary criticism.
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Craft Capsule: We Are All Translators
The author of Each of Us Killers explains why reading and writing are forms of translation.
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