Category: on writing

Interviews and Readings from the 2016 Rosemont Writers Retreat

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A nice collection of interviews with fiction writers, memoirists, and poets who taught alongside me at this year’s stellar Rosemont Retreat run by Carla Spataro.

Beth Kephart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNgk5gq1ogk

Jennifer Steil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7j1S4e_sA

Tawni Waters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vHNiZmMDy8

Grant Clauser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BhFvolAfE

Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel (NY Times)

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“Realism is a literary technique no longer adequate for the purpose of representing reality.” —Andrey Sinyavsky

 

The New York Times on the rise of Dystopian Fiction in the Middle East.

Agent Monday Blog: Writers Should Learn from Liars (reprint)

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Agent Monday: Writers Should Learn from Liars