Next Chapters: Phillip Freeman
Phillip Freeman is a student of the dream world in clinical settings, sport, and theater. Talk to him about unconscious conflict, trauma, symptoms, inhibitions, and illusions.
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THIS POST WILL SELF-DESTRUCT: A PREVIEW OF CRAFT ON DRAFT, SUSPENSE EDITION, WITH HENRIETTE LAZARIDIS, DAN FOGARTY, AND LISE HAINES
I first learned about one of Alfred Hitchcock’s maxims for suspense in a GrubStreet class. Say five people are sitting around a table talking about baseball or playing poker – suddenly, a bomb goes off. It’s shocking, but the minutes…
Waking Up with the 7am Novelist
I’m not normally a morning person, but Michelle Hoover’s free webinar series and podcast, The 7am Novelist, just might convert me. Every morning at 7am, for 50 days, Hoover inspires us to get writing by discussing novel writing craft with…
HOW TO KEEP ON KEEPING ON IN REVISION, WITH RACHEL BARENBAUM, DARIEL SUAREZ AND KATHERINE SHERBROOKE
At some point in the past few weeks I started hearing the word “revision” in my head to the tune of “Tradition!” – the song that opens “Fiddler on the Roof.” “Revisiiiooooon! REVISION!” (Sorry.) Honestly it had more to do…
Neema Avashia—Untangling Another Appalachia
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, is Neema Avashia’s poignant debut essay collection that brings us from growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in West Virginia, to becoming a queer writer, teacher, and education…
Rishi Reddi Interviews Sheba Karim, Author of THE MARVELOUS MIRZA GIRLS
Sheba Karim’s new novel, The Marvelous Mirza Girls, follows the gap-year adventures of Noreen, who moves to New Delhi from New Jersey with her hip single mom, Ruby, to recover from the recent death of her beloved aunt. During their…