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First Fiction
Alexander Chee
There is an exercise I have my students do, one I invented. Think of a story your family tells about you to any newcomer, usually from your early childhood. -
Why Fiction Matters
The Drip Drip Drip of Another Consciousness
Jane Smiley
Last night, I dreamed about my novel Ten Days In the Hills, not one of my best received, but certainly one that I enjoyed writing. -
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Re-Vision
Mitchell S. Jackson
Let me tell you how I got popped. Let me start with a couple of hours pre the arrest, when I was in medias res cooking dope in the house I shared—a...
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Five Deeply Strange Reads
Matt Bell
Shifts in time, changelings, organic buildings, levitating grandmothers, and all things odd inhabit this list from Matt Bell, author of A... -
Writers on Writing
A Tightrope Walker's Guide to Writing
Stefan Merrill Block
How? For many years—since long before I could call myself a writer—I’ve sat through the Q&A sections of authors’ book readings, impatiently... -
The Model Short Story
On "Florida" by Mavis Gallant
Lynne Tillman
In any Gallant story, life or reality is curious, daunting, often frustrating, sad or tragic. And, she’s funny, too, in her way
