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Writing Advice from Francine Prose and Leslie Jamison via NY Times

LitRagger — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:13:59 +0000

Life is narrative. Narrative is life. What happens when the two collide? Francine Prose and Leslie Jameson take this question on over at the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Leslie Jamison on Using Real Relationships in Fiction:

“Even the phrases we reach for — “using” or “mining” our relationships — imply attachments turned to commodities, feelings traded for professional affirmation. They summon an entire landscape of emotion turned to hollow earth because we’ve plundered it — excavated the mineral lode of everything we’ve ever seen or forged or felt.”

via New York Times Books
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Karen Russel Interview via American Short Fiction

LitRagger — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:05:35 +0000

Vincent Scarpa interviews Karen Russel over at the American Short Fiction blog about her new book Sleep Donation, the first original ebook from Atavist Books, which is set in an alternative universe suffering from an insomnia epidemic.

On writing the bizarre, Russell says:

A strange constraint can paradoxically free you up as a writer, I think. It can function as a corral for the imagination.

via American Short Fiction
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Rachel Zucker Interview via Tin House

LitRagger — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 17:48:35 +0000

An Interview with the poet Rachel Zucker from Tin House. Zucker is the author of The Bad Wife Handbook from Weslyan Poetry. Her new book, The Pedestrians, is out now from Wave Books.

While it is not a big secret that I admire female poets, it was geometry, not gender, that first drew me to Rachel Zucker’s work. Along with a deliciously catchy title, Zucker’s third book, The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan Poetry), was published long and horizontally, the distinct shape of the book a perfect match for [...]

via Tin House
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