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Adventures Are Overrated

  • Jake Slovis
  • October 28, 2015
For The Millions, Bill Morris wonders what value adventures and life experiences have on writing good fiction. While at first Morris is convinced that adventure is necessary to write quality work,…
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Vehicles of Literary Inspiration

  • Victor Luo
  • August 6, 2015
For the past century American writers and artists have been obsessed with that shimmering, sexy, liberating, lethal contraption known as the automobile…Is there a more potent metaphor for American restlessness,…
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A Treacherous Crossroads

  • Alex Norcia
  • May 8, 2015
For The Millions, Bill Morris reflects on the documentary Havana Motor Club, and his own trip to Cuba in 1998, noting how the country is now getting “ready to navigate…
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The Rodney Dangerfield of Literature

  • Alex Norcia
  • February 27, 2015
For The Daily Beast, Bill Morris has some theories about why Jim Harrison is an underrated writer.
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Getting It Right

  • Roxie Pell
  • February 17, 2015
People have been writing about civil rights for years, but it’s taken Hollywood until now to warm up to the subject (of course, not enough). Bill Morris traces the history…
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Lost in Translation

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 5, 2015
Three Percent, a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester, derives its name from the fact that about 3 percent of all the books published in the U.S.…
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Back to the Present

  • Roxie Pell
  • November 4, 2014
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? By the time we’ve figured it out, we’ve already gotten there. Examining a trend toward futuristic fiction, Bill…
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The Joy of Someone Else Reading Your Writing

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 20, 2014
Writing is its own form of music. And though I had read my novel aloud to myself many times and had read passages of it aloud to dozens of audiences…
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The Road to Publication

  • P.E. Garcia
  • July 15, 2014
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…
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The Golden Age of Second Novels

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 7, 2014
Despite the challenges writers face with debut novels, the second novel is generally considered the most difficult to write. Some second novels fail to exceed the first, and plenty of…
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