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Inua Ellams on Writing The Half-God of Rainfall
Inua EllamsThe Half-God of Rainfall is a many-layered thing and has been described as an epic revenge fantasy on love and basketball, a meditation...
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Our Other Futures
Malka OlderIn this essay, author Malka Older reflects on her time as a humanitarian aid worker in Darfur and how it influenced her near-future political...
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Supermarket Mittelschmerz
Max WinterIn this essay, author Max Winter (Exes) reflects on his mother’s career as a painter, why she inexplicably stopped painting when he was...
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Four Surprising Influences on We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Kaitlyn GreenidgeWe asked First Novel Prize finalist Kaitlyn Greenidge to talk about some of the unusual influences behind her fantastic novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman
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The Influence of Journalism in Fiction
Elliot AckermanFallujah, Aleppo, Gaziantep. These are all cities that we hear about in the news, but we don’t think about the stories contained within them
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Writing to Destroy Memory
Claudia KasperIn this post, Claudia Casper, author of the new book The Mercy Journals, shares how General Roméo Dallaire, the Canadian general who...
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Five Surprising Influences on You Will Know Me
Megan AbbottWe asked Megan Abbott to talk about some of the influences behind her new hit book You Will Know Me. Here she discusses how a television...
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What Else Would a Young Film Star Wear?
Maggie O'FarrellIn this essay, Maggie O’Farrell, author of This Must Be the Place, writes about how an unforgettable object found its way into her fiction.