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AWP 2011 Aftermath: Woah Now Hey Mr. Rager Mr. Rager Tell Me Where You’re...
AWP 2011 is over. Highlights, in no particular order, below. 1. Dancing in a group including xTx, Roxane Gay, my roommates Adam Reger and Robert Yune to the song “I Don’t Want to Lose Your Love...
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The Novel The Novel The Novel
I’ve been digging around through my writing notebooks recently and came upon something (relatively) interesting. A timestamp. March 11, 2009. It’s the day I started writing my novel. It was two years...
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Here’s Everything I’ve Recommended to Fiction Students So Far This Semester
So, I’m running this advanced fiction workshop and it’s all like woah. One thing I like to do in a classroom setting like this is meet individually with every student after they workshop. I remember...
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Fall 2011 Fiction Recommendations
One of my favorite aspects of teaching is recommending fiction to students. There’s almost nothing better than reading a student story and thinking, “This person absolutely needs to read Lorrie...
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Course Sequences
Over the last month or so, I’ve tried really hard to blow up my workshop syllabus. Things were going really well, and I wasn’t motivated out of some fear that I wasn’t getting through to the students....
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2012 AWP Guide
And so it begins again. In less than two months we will be reunited in Chi-town to discuss our websites, publications, and favorite Nintendo games. xTx will play Dark Tower. Devan Goldstein will cry....
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A.M. Homes, Emma Straub, Scott McClanahan, Marie-Helene Bertino and Michael...
Uh, if you’re in Brooklyn you need to go to this. These are some of my favorite writers. I teach Emma and Homes, and I just read with McClanahan a few weeks ago. He’s one of the best readers around bar...
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