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Allison Wyss
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I Don’t Want to Hurt These Characters: A Conversation with Paige Lewis
“It’s been really strange to live in the world of the book for so many years and now be outside of it. It feels a little bit unfair. I want to be back in the throes of the book. I…
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A Little Machine Against Big Brother: A Conversation with Glenn Dixon
“At any rate, we have to find a way to infuse empathy into these AI models. And that’s where we come to my novel. I don’t know if I was thinking of this in writing the novel—I was slogging through…
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Embracing Constraint through the Expansion of Going Deeper: A Conversation with Tayyba Kanwal
“I think “escape” does work in that we all need to escape our constraints. How we escape them is the question. Do you escape by breaking down the structures? Or do you escape control by finding ways to accomplish what…
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Joining the World: A Conversation with Patricia Lockwood
“A lot of pandemic novels were about a place where everyone could get away from it and not directly have to deal. I totally understand that, but as a person who was writing about it from the very beginning, probably…
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Chaos Seeps Into Order: A Conversation with Maria Reva
If you can laugh about a difficult situation, laugh in your aggressor’s face, it gives you a sense of power.