How They Write
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating look at how several writers get down to business–from writing in blue exam books to dressing in character to collage-making. Some highlights: Orhan Pamuk: Mr....
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Listening to the Tiny Voice: An Interview with Kathryn Ma
Kathryn Ma - photo by RayKo Photo Center/Michael Shindler I met Kathryn Ma, winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize for All That Work and Still No Boys, for coffee at a café in San Francisco’s...
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Quotes & Notes: Trust Your Genius, Even If It Doesn’t Belong to You
“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.”– Simone de Beauvoir The words slipped out of my mouth during an undergraduate nonfiction workshop. A previously unremarkable student had just produced...
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Starting with Small Moments: An Interview with Andrew Porter
I had a teacher once who used to talk about the “well-made story” as if it were a bad thing. Technical mastery, he suggested, was nearly synonymous with emotional anemia. To be really great, and really...
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Among Strangers: An Interview with Ruiyan Xu
Laughter and Othello are strange bedfellows, but I’ve always enjoyed that the title character, one of the more lyrical and expressive in the canon, spends so much stage time wishing he were more...
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Vampires are People, too: An Interview with Janice Eidus
When I asked Janice Eidus where she’d like to meet for our interview, she responded with, “Well, I have an absolutely literary idea…” Which is how we wound up at the Algonquin Hotel, sipping tea on a...
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Leftovers
Image Credit: Flickr So, every once in a while a friend will toss out a great anecdote, or character, or fully formed story, with the caveat, “Go ahead and use this, because for X reason, I never...
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