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P.E. Garcia
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Semi-Factual Fiction
Electric Literature talks to David Shapiro about his new semi-factual novel You’re Not Much Use to Anyone and the reasons why he never wants to write another book like it: I feel really guilty about it. I feel exploitative. A…
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The Books That Don’t Make It
“For every book I publish,” a writing teacher once told me, “there’s one book I don’t.” Over at The Millions, Chloe Benjamin talks to five writers about the unpublished novels they have tucked away in their drawers and what those…
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Who are the Poet Laureates?
After the recent dust-up over North Carolina’s poet laureate, the New York Times takes a look at 45 state poet laureates to see who they are and just what exactly it is they do.
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The Tale of Beatrix Potter
At the Public Domain Review, Frank Delaney takes a look at the life of Beatrix Potter and the people, places, and rabbits that inspired her work.
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The Saddest Poem Ever Written
A lot of poems are sad, but over at The Millions, Nick Ripatrazone thinks he’s found the saddest: “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ripatrazone explores Hopkins’s poem, and while doing so, gives his thoughts on what good poetry…
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Don’t Throw the Clichés out with the Bath Water
Most people think clichés aren’t worth a hill of beans, but over at Salon, Orin Hargraves says they just haven’t gotten a fair shake. Hargraves thinks clichés are just a red herring; if you want to make sure your writing…
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The Importance of Diversity in Workshop
Workshop can be a stressful experience for anyone, but it can be especially stressful for a person of color. Matthew Salesses wrote this piece for NPR, highlighting the importance of making the workshop a safe space for everyone.
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The Road to Publication
Bill Morris and Edan Lepucki both have novels coming out soon. Over at The Millions, they have a conversation about the journey those novels took from conception, to editing, to publishing.
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Books by Their Covers
London-based artist Jamie Kennan has designed covers for books by Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot, and Vladimir Nabokov. In an interview with It’s Nice That, Kennan talks about why he loves designing book covers: Designing a book cover is great because…
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The Modern War Novel
As modern warfare has changed, so has the war novel. The Believer’s blog has an interview with author Aaron Gwyn, where he discusses his latest novel and the changing reality of the American soldier: Drone operators in the American Southwest…
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Lou Reed Will Set You Free
For Poetry, artist Tony Fitzpatrick talks about how Lou Reed’s “Take a Walk on the Wild Side” opened him up to “another side.” Fitzpatrick shares some of his memories of Reed and a slideshow of his Reed-inspired work.
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A Look Inside the Kenyon Review
If you’re wondering just how exactly the Kenyon Review chooses what it’s going to publish, Managing Editor Abigail Wadsworth Serfass writes on the journal’s blog about one story’s journey from the slush pile to the Summer 2014 issue.