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Interview: Celeste Ng, Author of Everything I Never Told You

By Robert Birnbaum | Published: May 21, 2015

“Creating some kind of art…is as close to leaving your brain behind in a jar as you’re going to get.”

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Interview with Songwriter Whitney Ballen (Falls)

By Anna-Lynne Williams | Published: January 30, 2015

“I suppose I am really unaware of my writing process because I never really plan on writing anything, it just kind of happens.”

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Interview: Poet Joanne Dominique Dwyer (Belle Laide)

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: July 17, 2014

“Too much of our human existence is based on making money and getting errands done. It’s such a waste of the gift of life, not to celebrate and bring magic and mystery into the everyday.”

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Author Q&A: Ben Tanzer (Lost in Space)

By Matt Borondy | Published: May 5, 2014

“To be competitive and on, all of the time, involves discipline and schedule, a lot of super-focused manic intensity, and the need to ignore outside distractions, all of which is huge for writing.”

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Vintage Attraction: A Happy Hour Interview with Charles Blackstone

By Alison Barker | Published: April 29, 2014

“I think I wanted characters that rejected that sort of accepted protocol. How you meet, how long you remain skeptical, when you submit to love, or at least the idea of love.”

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Author Q&A: Noah Cicero (Best Behavior)

By Matt Borondy | Published: February 12, 2014

“I believe if you read a lot, your mind learns the ability to play different games or see different options in every situation that non-readers might not see.”

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What Changes Everything: 5 Questions with Masha Hamilton

By Matt Borondy | Published: February 5, 2014

“Telling one’s own story is as important to a certain kind of survival as food and shelter.”

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Interview: Angela Jackson-Brown, Author of Drinking from a Bitter Cup

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: January 17, 2014

“So often as writers, our first instinct is to write about some far off distant place that we know nothing about because we think where we came from is not interesting enough.”

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Interview: Poet Jillian Weise (The Book of Goodbyes)

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: December 23, 2013

“I’m all for noir. What is a cyborg poet to do? If I’m comic, then I play into the carnival show. If I’m tragic, then I reinforce centuries of pity for the disabled figure in literature. Noir warps the comic and the tragic.”

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Identity and Authorship: An Interview with Songwriter Charles Frail

By Anna-Lynne Williams | Published: December 3, 2013

“I think wooing a language is in some ways easier when it is not the language you grew up with. You can decide to learn it only through reading poetry or listening to songs. You can leave out the ugly parts.”

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