Write Like a Translator
The translator of Luis Felipe Fabre’s Recital of the Dark Verses shares lessons from translation that can improve all creative prose.
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Ten Questions for Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
“I was writing this hybrid lyric thing that was hard to fall into a rhythm with at first.” —Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, author of The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History
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Ten Questions for Justin Torres
“I was stretching to become a different kind of writer, and that took time.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts
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Bugging People: A Guide to Research
The author of Wine People explores how conducting interviews can inform narratives and characters.
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Ten Questions for Cintia Santana
“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet
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The Enchantment of Memory: Drawing Inspiration From Science and Fairy Tales
The author of The Museum of Human History discusses how the human mind and archetypal narratives informed her novel.
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Ten Questions for JoAnna Novak
“You have time.” —JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
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Ten Questions for Sarah Rose Etter
“Finish the draft. Nothing else matters.” —Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe
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The Archive and the Everyday
The author of Spoken Word: A Cultural History and The Study of Human Life examines the power of recovering lost literary voices.
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Ten Questions for Airea D. Matthews
“I am constantly questioning, resisting, studying, accepting, and wondering—all of which I believe to be the hallmarks of the writer’s life.” —Airea D. Matthews, author of Bread and Circus
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