This is the last day of my residency at The Studios of Key West and I've been thinking a lot about "Go Away," a beautiful essay that Alexander Chee wrote about residencies. In the essay, Alex talks about needing "...a mystical device I could use to step inside another world and … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2013
The Imitation Exercise
I do this one most semesters and it goes like this: Type up a bunch of passages from published short stories that demonstrate techniques you would like your students to imitate. I like to do enough passages that each student will draw something different, but you don’t have … [Read more...]
Victor LaValle on ISLE
So thrilled to be able to share these generous words about ISLE from one of my all-time favorite writers, Victor LaValle. If you have not read Big Machine and The Devil in Silver, you are seriously missing out. “People keep disappearing in Laura Van Den Berg’s haunting … [Read more...]
Shaping the Story Collection at Grub Street
At the end of the summer, I'm moving back to the Boston area and here is one of the best things about that: I’ll get to return to teaching at the ever-awesome Grub Street! In October, I'll be doing a 4 day intensive on shaping story collections. If you're in the Boston area and … [Read more...]
Publisher’s Weekly on ISLE
A huge thank you to Publisher’s Weekly for their generous (and starred!) review of ISLE. … [Read more...]
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