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Stephanie Bento

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Stephanie Bento is a writer, classical cellist, and photographer living in Washington, DC. In her writing, she is interested in exploring the musicality of sound and form, and our connection to time and place. Find out more about her creative work at saudadebelle.com, or say hello/bonjour on Twitter @saudadebelle.
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Writerly Conversation

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 21, 2016
In a Salon interview, authors Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman talk to each other about their recent books, character- and world-building, and alienation and anxiety in their novels. “Every story…
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What Makes a Story a Story

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 14, 2016
Over at the Atlantic, Joe Fassler talks to Alice Mattison about how Grace Paley’s short stories encouraged her to write fiction. Mattison recalls: From Paley, I learned that I could…
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Lessons from The Little Virtues

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 14, 2016
For the New Yorker, author Belle Boggs reflects on Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg’s collection of essays, The Little Virtues, and how the book influenced her own parenting philosophy. Boggs writes:…
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Omniscience Is In

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 14, 2016
In a New York Times article, Elliott Holt writes about how omniscience is making a comeback in contemporary fiction. She writes: The effects of omniscience are authority and scope; novels…
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The Lyrics of Friendship

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 7, 2016
What is friendship if not learning the song of another’s heart and singing it back to them? In a reflection on friendship and language, Brain Pickings’s Maria Popova explores Eudora…
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Aesthetics and Poetics

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 7, 2016
Over at The Walrus, Michael Prior talks with poet Hoa Nguyen about the assessment of poetry, poetic communities in the US and Canada, and the role of silence and space…
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A Novel Debut

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 7, 2016
Over at the New York Times Book Review, Leslie Jamison and Ayana Mathis write about the excitement surrounding debut novelists’ work. “It’s like hearing an overture at the beginning of…
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A Romance with Concision

  • Stephanie Bento
  • August 31, 2016
Can’t wait for Sarah Manguso’s newest book, 300 Arguments? Over at Harper’s Magazine, you can read an essay excerpted from the book about brevity and aphorisms. Manguso writes: Please don’t…
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Cats, Comics, and Conservation

  • Stephanie Bento
  • August 31, 2016
Some find it strange that a person known for her novels and poetry would take to writing comic books called Angel Catbird. But I myself don’t find it very strange. Read an…
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Reading Emotions

  • Stephanie Bento
  • August 31, 2016
There’s nothing that the book world likes to debate more than the differences between literary fiction and commercial or genre fiction.   According to a new study published in Psychology of…
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In Conversation with Jesse Ball

  • Stephanie Bento
  • August 24, 2016
There are two things in writing: one is to say something with the form of what you’re saying, and the other is to say something with the content of what…
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Time Risk in Hollywood

  • Stephanie Bento
  • August 24, 2016
Screenwriters do the bulk of their work prior to the green light. Cameras not rolling. Trying to get films made. They toil at the wrong end of the time risk…
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