I finished writing the first draft of a new novel, but I scrapped it and started over without reading a word. I prefer editing to writing so revising a terrible draft is less daunting than starting over, but I knew it was more diary dump than art. So all those months I spent…
A few years ago I got the chance to read Asale Angel-Ajani’s (then-unpublished) debut novel, A Country You Can Leave, and fell in love: the oh so…
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In Loitering With Intent, a delicious little piece of metafiction about writing, Muriel Spark tells us via Fleur Talbot: I was finding it extraordinary…
Today we have another mini-interview, this time with Daisy Alpert Florin, author of the debut novel, My Last Innocent Year, which has gotten a lot of…
If you’ve been a subscriber for a while you’ve probably noticed many of my reading recommendations have been by Davon Loeb. (And if you’re a new…
I gave a reading at a bookstore a few weeks ago that went so well I was invited back. After the event people came up to tell me how much they loved my…
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I’m so excited to kick off our new interview series today! Three questions posed to various authors about how to keep writing. I love what Alyssa has to…
I was recently invited to submit a piece of writing that I’d sort of, kind of, given up on. For context, my twins just turned three. And my six year…
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