Ten Questions for Mike Fu

“Streamline. Outline. Find your center of gravity.” —Mike Fu, author of Masquerade
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“Streamline. Outline. Find your center of gravity.” —Mike Fu, author of Masquerade
“[T]herapeutic modes can enhance artistic work enormously, because they give us access to our inner workings in fresh, sometimes even revelatory ways. ” —Miller Oberman, author of Impossible Things
“You can go with intention, or you can explore where the poem leads you. Where your unconscious leads you.” —Kimiko Hahn, author of The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems
“Never let the pursuit of perfection be the enemy of the good.” —Steve Wasserman, author of Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays
“Take a year, pursue it, and see what happens.” —Afabwaje Kurian, author of Before the Mango Ripens
“The orality and intimacy of the lecture bring it closer to some aspects of lyric poetry than the nonfiction essay.” —Srikanth Reddy, author of The Unsignificant
“Finish the draft. Nothing else matters.” —Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe
“I didn’t set out to write exactly this book.” —Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, author of Negative Money
“Everything you are afraid of will be surpassed by desires you cannot yet imagine.” —Elizabeth Metzger, Lying In
The authors of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing engage in a dialogue about textual doneness.