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Hannah Gersen

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Navigating French

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 28, 2016
Over at The Millions, Hannah Gersen interviews Lauren Collins about her memoir, When in French; learning a foreign language; and writing about herself. As Collins recalls: I wanted to describe…
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What Do You Call It?

  • Roxie Pell
  • July 26, 2016
Book titles are an essential component of the texts they gesture at. They’re also advertising. At Catapult, Hannah Gersen recounts the naming process for her novel Home Field: A short story title…
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Making Up for Lost Time

  • Jake Slovis
  • January 27, 2016
For The Millions, Hannah Gersen recalls past attempts to read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and explains why she came up short. The essay also serves as an announcement for a…
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To MFA or not to MFA? That Isn’t the Question.

  • Jake Slovis
  • April 28, 2015
Recently, it has become fashionable to debate the pros and cons of pursuing a MFA. However, for the Millions, Hannah Gersen suggests that this debate has steered the conversation away from…
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Mapping the Imaginary

  • Alex Norcia
  • February 13, 2015
For The Millions, Hannah Gersen shares the visual aid she used to construct her novel and asks other writers about their own: I got curious about the other visual aids…
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Daum-isms

  • P.E. Garcia
  • December 1, 2014
Just to throw out a few other Daum-isms—here’s her description of Anthropologie: “A twirling motion in the form of an international brand”. Of Los Angeles: “a place where wildness and…
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On Giving Birth and Making Sense of it All

  • Serena Candelaria
  • May 13, 2014
Before giving birth to her first child, Hannah Gersen had hoped to find an anthology of birth stories. At The Millions, Gersen writes that Labor Day is just what she was seeking, though she didn’t discover…
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