“I don’t make the characters do what I would do in facing these situations—as I’ve already illustrated, my characters seem to thwart me on every level—but I do wind up learning a lot about myself when writing about others. It reminds me of how psychologists say that children play as a way to learn to navigate social situations, that they’re sort of practicing for the real thing. And I guess, in a way, writers are people who have just never stopped playing.” ~ Jen Michalksi
Category: Interviews
Lavinia Ludlow and Curtis Smith in Conversation
Lavinia Ludlow is the author of two novels, alt.punk (2011) and Single Stroke Seven (2016). Both titles explore the successes, failures, and eccentric lives of
Nice Things by James Franco, Edited by Sean Lovelace and Mark Neely
“What Sean Lovelace and Mark Neely have done is write something that eclipses fan fiction: they’ve fed his vernacular into a super-elastic-bubble-plastic Franco linguistic-simulation-machine. It’s delightful. It compelled me to visit Franco’s Instagram; I verified they nailed his frenetic tone. How did they do it, without emojis?”
A Conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel by Sandy Ebner
Frances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning journalist who co-founded the local news site Berkeleyside. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los
Naturally Political: An Interview with Ann Pancake by L.N. Holmes
“I think if you get the art right, the politics will come along naturally after it. But if you try to make politics the most important part of the piece, then the piece may come off as preachy or didactic and is probably going to have a weaker political effect, ironically, than if you try to deliberately put the politics in there.” ~ Ann Pancake, author of Strange As This Weather Has Been
Mexicali Blues by Joseph Grant
REVIEWED BY A.E. WEISGERBER Mexicali Blues | Joseph Grant | Literary Wanderlust | March 1, 2016 | ISBN 9781942856054 Many modern writers owe a debt
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