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Against the “Dead Girl Trope,” Giving Agency to Missing Girls: A Conversation with Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Third person was hard for me when I started writing because I associate it with the all-knowing realist narrator in classic novels, a narrator who has full knowledge of the world, an authority I didn’t feel I had. But as…
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The Magic of Grouse County: Tom Drury’s West of Loveland
This jumpstart quest is classic Drury: in The End of Vandalism, the same Dan Norman gets a mysterious tip and finds an abandoned baby in front of a Hy-Vee grocery store; in Hunts in Dreams, the plumber-turned-thief Tiny Darling becomes…
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In the Sickness Lies the Cure: A Conversation with Meghan O’Gieblyn
I came up against that tension as I was trying to write about something very small, which was the truth about myself. I did feel, despite all the doubleness and multiplicity, that there was a definitive truth about myself, if…
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The November Rumpus Bookclub: Barbara Kingsolver
The November installment of the relaunched The Rumpus Book Club* will be on November 16 at 5pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and New York Times best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver about her…
