No addition without subtraction: A Conversation with Hilary Leichter
As fiction writers, we’re always saying that what we write is not “real,” but as soon as we write it, it becomes a part of the world.
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Posts by: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Loving the questions: Religion and poetry with Jennifer Michael Hecht
Thinking in terms of the poetry of your life is about noticing that you are one of the sentient beings in a universe with billions of galaxies, and your experience is the universe knowing itself and it is weird and messy and painful but it matters.
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Life has a way of taking that out of you: A conversation with Tom Perrotta
. . . the novel exists as a form because it allows you to see both the character’s thoughts and the character’s actions, and they rarely line up.
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A Devotee of the Interconnectedness of Time: A Conversation with Ariel Delgado Dixon
“When I teach, my biggest hobby horse is specificity . . . Even boring people are specifically boring.”
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Delicious Anger: A Conversation with Gwen E. Kirby
When I’ve been running regularly and writing regularly, it tends to go well. When I haven’t been running or writing in a while, then I’m bent over heaving for breath and wondering why I ever thought I knew how to write a sentence.
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