The Story of the Book
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EssaysThe Story of the Book
Inua Ellams on Writing The Half-God of Rainfall
Inua Ellams
The 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
Our Other Futures
Malka Older
In 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
Supermarket Mittelschmerz
Max Winter
In 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
Four Surprising Influences on We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Kaitlyn Greenidge
We 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
The Influence of Journalism in Fiction
Elliot Ackerman
Fallujah, 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
Writing to Destroy Memory
Claudia Kasper
In 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
Five Surprising Influences on You Will Know Me
Megan Abbott
We 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
What Else Would a Young Film Star Wear?
Maggie O'Farrell
In this essay, Maggie O’Farrell, author of This Must Be the Place, writes about how an unforgettable object found its way into her fiction.