Ten Questions for Kimiko Hahn
“You can go with intention, or you can explore where the poem leads you. Where your unconscious leads you.” —Kimiko Hahn, author of The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems
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Ten Questions for Steve Wasserman
“Never let the pursuit of perfection be the enemy of the good.” —Steve Wasserman, author of Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays
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Ten Questions for Afabwaje Kurian
“Take a year, pursue it, and see what happens.” —Afabwaje Kurian, author of Before the Mango Ripens
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Ten Questions for Srikanth Reddy
“The orality and intimacy of the lecture bring it closer to some aspects of lyric poetry than the nonfiction essay.” —Srikanth Reddy, author of The Unsignificant
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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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Ten Questions for Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
“I didn’t set out to write exactly this book.” —Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, author of Negative Money
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Ten Questions for Elizabeth Metzger
“Everything you are afraid of will be surpassed by desires you cannot yet imagine.” —Elizabeth Metzger, Lying In
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How Do You Know When to Stop Revising?
The authors of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing engage in a dialogue about textual doneness.
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The Sentence and the Sentence Story
The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story investigates the power of a single sentence, long or short.
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The Fullness of Omission
The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story explores what is gained by cutting elements of a narrative.
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