Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies elbowed out some of its competition last Wednesday when the National Book Award announced its 2015 finalists, but of any writer I know, I don’t expect such adulation to go to Groff’s head. I first…
I’ve been struggling with this blog post over the last couple of weeks, trying to shape an idea into something constructive. What I wanted to do was write about acknowledgements pages, how writers use them in different ways, everything from…
Stephanie Gayle is the author of the mystery Idyll Threats (Seventh Street Books – September 8th, 2015). Her first novel, My Summer of Southern Discomfort, was one of Redbook magazine’s Top Ten Summer Reads, and her short fiction and non-fiction have appeared…
Lori Ostlund’s debut novel After the Parade follows the progress of ESL instructor Aaron Englund as he builds a new life for himself in San Francisco and reflects on a small-town upbringing in Minnesota. Ostlund’s first collection of stories, The…
Once again, I find myself gestating two babies: my book and an actual human child, currently two weeks out from D-Day. This happened two years ago too, smack in the middle of the Novel Incubator. I went to class one…
After “What’s next,” the question I’m asked most often is, “What drives me, what keeps me going?” One major source of inspiration is other writers carving out a way of their own. It doesn’t matter what genre they’re working in,…