talked on air with alison stewart, host of wync’s all of it, about character choreography, childless children’s book authors, & more

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spoke with maris kreizman, host of the maris review, about imposture syndrome, publishing lunches, how the book is or isn’t a metoo story, the value of shame in storytelling, & more

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ahead of the one story debutante ball, talked to david bumke about how the novel evolved from a short story, mothers and daughters, the nonchronological structure of the novel, how the third person point of view forces the plot to move faster, & more

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chatted with tom mcallister and mike ingram, hosts of book fight!, about leopoldine core’s poignant and underrated short stories, how writers can “budget” a story, rejecting easy morality, alice munro and patricia highsmith, joel embiid and the 76ers, & more

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wrote about some of the songs that influenced we do what we do in the dark, including selections from mitski, lucy dacus, & more

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spoke with writer nylah burton about naming (or not naming) characters, keeping secrets as a way of holding onto power, writing relationships in which there’s a significant age gap, & more

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talked with author celia laskey about going from book reviewer to book writer, power dynamics between two women, the evolution of contemporary queer literature, & more

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