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William Giraldi: “I Let Myself Be Outrageous”

May 14, 2012

TW Interview by David Cameron

Reading Busy Monsters is like crashing a party where Cervantes, Hopkins, Wordsworth, and Homer all compete at drinking games.

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Susie Bright: “There Is No Art Without Sex”

Mar 22, 2012

TW Interview by Lorraine Berry

I hope my obituary is written by someone who actually read my work.

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Julia Scheeres: “It Was a Hellhole”

Feb 13, 2012

TW Interview by William Gray

I’m 27. I can’t put down A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres, because I'm amazed that Jonestown even happened....

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Robert Olen Butler: "The Danger of Wanting to Be a Writer”

Feb 06, 2012

TW Interview by Lorraine Berry

When people get frustrated because they don’t know what the book is about, it’s because they’re trying to turn it into a college term paper.

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Mei-Ling Hopgood: "American Parents Go a Little Nutty"

Dec 26, 2011

TW Interview by William Gray

I had that mommy guilt about what I was doing.

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Adam Pertman: “We Teach Our Kids by Being Open”

Nov 16, 2011

TW Interview by Fran Cronin

I like to think honesty and openness always trump shame.

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Raymond Sokolov: The Joy of Edible Muskrat

Nov 07, 2011

Theme Essay by Jeremiah Horrigan

What is the state of American food—not just food writing—these days?

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Steve Almond: “So Much Sensual Data to Be Mined"

Nov 07, 2011

TW Interview by David Cameron

In any honest story, you try to build an emotional ramp to the moments that matter.

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Natalie Goldberg: “I Don’t Believe in Writer’s Block”

Sep 12, 2011

TW Interview by Judith A. Ross

I knew I couldn’t learn how to do writing in school, because people didn’t know how to teach it.

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William Robinson: “The Quick Whip of a Sentence”

Aug 22, 2011

TW Interview by Rebecca Meacham

I didn't intentionally start out by saying "I'm going to write about a character who is ‘immoderately adrift.’

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