excellent criminal because I was so creative in my descriptions of what horrors would befall someone who ... mom. She didn’t reserve her love just for us, either. My mom would mother any child in her orbit that ... a world I would not otherwise have known, or taught me how better to survive my own. Maybe my book does ...
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writing, making room for what is unconscious. Early on in the drafting process, I was under the influence ... experience with bodywork. I know that sounds like a lot for a 100-page book to tackle. It is. But as I read ... (and even as I re-read) THRESHOLES, I began to understand that overwhelming the reader was essential, ...
Page 99 from Issue 80 through that with lovemaking their words would be dissolved. She would ... confused, who tragically felt called on to make a choice. Ruby wondered what would become of her. She ... heavyset, gnarled, weirdly lovely and delicate black man, then she did not know what she would do. She ...
because they didn’t know me and my history. What was I supposed to do? Go back and become ... between. I read whatever was handed down to me; it was the basic American fare. A lot of it I didn’t like, ... I was a fairly sophisticated reader by the time I was in my early teens, but that book was a challenge ...
never thought that it was my fault! JMJ: How difficult was it for her to get help? DH: When Jane and ... by 1994. She never had, entirely, and she never would. But it was remarkable—she noticed it as much ... Jane and me dying. After half my liver went, in 1992, we both knew I would die. I was sprawled on the ...
their book. As I began reading Bending Genre, I realized that what Singer and Walker had collected truly ... I couldn’t wait to share the insights and the complexities, so I began live-tweeting my reading. Each day, ... nonfiction is writing that reads like fiction but is based in fact.” What does “reads like fiction” mean? ...
lonesome, and imaginative, and I was thrilled to read that Turmeric & Sugar, Jones’s debut story ... to write sometimes after that. My teacher would “publish” those stories—staple them and put them on ... the bookshelf—for my classmates to read. Luckily I don’t remember any negative reviews I may have ...
was doing too much. My challenge to myself after that was to write a simple plot. When I stripped down ... ended up being so much about self-loathing and isolation was really because that’s what I was working ... It was a pretty disappointing and humiliating experience to announce my debut and then have to ...
guy? Back when Twitter was Twitter, I reached out to Josh, we exchanged books, and I found out he was ... fairly replace actress with writer here. So how important was it for you to keep thinking of yourself as ... as possible and then think about how these people would deal with something otherworldly. Many times ...