Stephanie Feldman
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Books Aren’t Born
For Electric Literature, Stephanie Feldman challenges the cliché that “a book is the author’s baby”: Using writing as a metaphor for birth, or birth as a metaphor for writing, belittles each: the raw, nerve-shattering physical labor of one, and the years…
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Failing Like a Success
Many days, my own failure lurked in the shadows, too terrible for me to look at straight on, but I read the words, I watched the screen, again and again. I stared it straight in its miserable face and felt…
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The Bitch in My Book
I didn’t have any conscious intentions for the kind of protagonist Marjorie would be. She indulged every bad instinct. And it was glorious.
