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INTERVIEWER How did you learn to control tone? RYAN I’ve always been sickened by the whole discussion of natural tone, natural voice. I think that’s ridiculous. Every tone, every voice is unnatural, and it is natural to be unnatural. So there’s nothing to talk about. It works or it doesn’t work. I don’t think that…
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My poem “Growing” is up today on the Pamplemousse site. Big thanks to Elizabeth A.I. Powell, Jensen Beach and the students of Johnson State College in Vermont for taking it.
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Host: Heather Aimee O’Neill Appearing: Tracey Rose Isabelle FitzGerald Andrés Cruciani Max Rivlin-Nadler On the Docket: Reading Book Signing The next Sackett Street Writers’ Reading Series features students from our Novel Intensive Workshops. Author Bio(s): Tracey Rose is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Pank Magazine, and elsewhere.…
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Jeff Lennon wrote a nice essay for Coldfront, about Kay Ryan’s poetry. Read it here. An excerpt: In a contemporary culture thrilled with noise and equivocation, popularity contests and advertisements, Ryan sails on the antithetical tack, as she has her entire career. Which isn’t to say she’s anti-modern. Famous for taking poetic subjects from Ripley’s…
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In the Literary Hub, Chip Livingston talks about Lucia Berlin, author of A Manual for Cleaning Women, as a writing instructor. She’s described in the piece as empathetic above all. It makes me wish all instructors were this way. She sounds absolutely lovely on a personal level. But also thorough in her critiques. Here’s…
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Wow, this is extensive and very useful. Thanks to Lincoln Michel for taking the time to break it down and peel away some of the layers of mystery surrounding how journals work.
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From BookCourt: This month The Sacket Street Writers Workshop presents a special a special student showcase celebrating the work of six participants in our advanced fiction workshops. The readers will be introduced by the Sackett Street instructors who nominated them. Fri Nov 6, 7:00PM Host(s): Julia Fierro Appearing: Elizabeth Brus Clarke Levidiotis Bejamin Olnis Su…
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