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Posts Tagged: free will

Sentence by Sentence: Talking with Nicholas Mancusi

By Ian MacAllen

January 3rd, 2020

Nick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.

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The Rumpus Interview with Dean Koontz

By Ben Pfeiffer

December 21st, 2015

Dean Koontz talks about his newest novel, Ashley Bell, overcoming self-doubt, and “what this incredibly beautiful language of ours allows you to do.”

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Tags: agents, alcoholic, alcoholism, Ashley Bell, ben pfeiffer, bestselling novelists, Butterfly Effect, California, catholicism, childhood, Dean Koontz, dogs, e-books, editors, fate, fathers and sons, fiction, free will, Fresh Air, From the Corner of His Eye, G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, horror, How to Write Best Selling Fiction, interview, Marilynne Robinson, Mark McGurl, MFAs, molecular biology, novels, NPR, Odd Thomas, Pennsylvania, pets, poverty, Publishing, quantum mechanics, religion, Richard Feynman, sci-fi, St. Odd, Stephen Meyer, Steve Sommers, teaching, teaching writing, Terry Gross, The Atlantic, The Program Era, the rumpus, therapy, violent, voice, writers, writing, writing advice

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