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Nancy Smith

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The Rumpus Interview with Anthony Doerr

  • Nancy Smith
  • May 28, 2014
Novelist and short story writer Anthony Doerr sits down to discuss supplementing research with imagination, conjuring "a time when radio was still a miracle," and why writers should use the textures and sensory details at their disposal.
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Writing Rules From Colson Whitehead

  • Jack Taylor
  • July 30, 2012
Want a free writing lesson? Colson Whitehead has some helpful tips over at The New York Times’ Sunday Book Review. If you missed it, be sure to read Nancy Smith’s Rumpus interview with…
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The Rumpus Interview with Colson Whitehead

  • Nancy Smith
  • July 17, 2012
"I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn’t change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas."
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Magazine Review #10: Esopus, Issue #17

  • Nancy Smith
  • January 2, 2012
Reading Esopus is more akin to walking around an art gallery than flipping through a publication. While technically a magazine, in the sense that it’s a bound stack of paper,…
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Magazine Review #9: The Coffin Factory, Issue #1

  • Nancy Smith
  • November 18, 2011
The Coffin Factory bills itself as the “magazine for people who love books,” and there is no better way to describe this magazine. Based in Brooklyn, and published three times…
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Magazine Review #6: Paris Review, Issue 196

  • Nancy Smith
  • May 31, 2011
The most important—and surprising—thing about this issue of The Paris Review: Roberto Bolaño’s lost novel. This is very exciting for fans of the Chilean writer (I happen to be a…
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Magazine Review #5: Canteen, Issue Six

  • Nancy Smith
  • April 4, 2011
Issue six of Canteen is gorgeous—clean and modern, lots of white space, square format, luscious paper, a beautiful illustration by Rod Hunting on the cover, more like an art book…
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Magazine Review #4:
McSweeney’s 36

  • Nancy Smith
  • February 16, 2011
McSweeney’s 36 can hardly be called a “magazine,” though it’s difficult to know just what to call it. A friendly human-head box filled with an assortment of printed matter would…
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Magazine Review #3: Tin House #46, Winter Reading

  • Nancy Smith
  • December 29, 2010
I’ve been craving winter. Real winter. Snow and ice and shoveling and bundling up to the point of being unable to bend over. We don’t get that here in San…
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