Thanks to Publisher's Weekly for letting me talk secrets, lies, & Javier Marías. … [Read more...]
THE ISLE OF YOUTH Makes L Magazine’s Fall Preview!
Thrilled to spot THE ISLE OF YOUTH The L Magazine's Fall Preview: What You Need to See, Read and Hear. Here is what the editors have to say: "When we read van den Berg’s One Teen Story story, it was so great we immediately went and bought her story collection. And now she has … [Read more...]
On Residencies
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...]
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...]
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