Ten Writers on Writing Advice: 2024
Ten authors answer the question: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
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Ten Questions for Lily Tuck
“I studied with Gordon Lish and he once said: ‘Never explain, never complain.’” —Lily Tuck, author of The Rest Is Memory
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Ten Questions for Bruce Bond
“All good poems are love poems.” —Bruce Bond, author of The Dove of the Morning News
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Ten Questions for Jessie van Eerden
“I found the creation of cohesion challenging; essays are disparate things, yet the book needs to make a whole.”—Jessie van Eerden, author of Yoke and Feather
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Ten Questions for Sharon Wahl
“Do a lot of people feel this monogamous guilt in their writing lives?”—Sharon Wahl, author of Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances
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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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Hybrid Writing and the Story Without an Ending
The author of The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain contemplates how hybrid writing can capture ongoing stories without neat endings.
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Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: How to Write the Unbearable Story
The author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction confronts the question every writer inevitably faces: Is my compulsion to tell the truth stronger than my fear of the consequences?
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Wanderer & Wonderer: A Q&A With Victoria Chang
The author of With My Back to the World talks about the importance of staying true to who we are while allowing the writing to tell us where to go, and how she views her work as a mapping of her changing mind and perception.
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Blessed Citation
The author of The White Mosque offers an ode to intertextuality.
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