mother-daughter relationship in the short shorts here? Thisbe Nissen: You know it’s funny, that actual ... was happening in the short. Compromises were made. Why do you think that was important to write ... was taken from—I can’t even remember what the actual thing that was that happened, but somewhere in my ...
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village, growing up with my cousins. When we were small, we didn’t feel that there was any difference ... emigration,” writes Irish writer Dan Sheehan, is “that you cease to be a player in the unfolding story of ... understand the argument that you need to be in your home country to write about it – I’m a fiction writer, ...
Spring/Summer 1999
Page 99 from Issue 105 recall a car parked in the entire lot when I was cutting through ... I still find it hard to imagine how I got so near the curb you were sitting on-" "I was ... whatever it might have caused you." "It was pretty scary, but I'm over ...
sentence, I’ve already conjured ten ways it could be worse. When I was a kid my mom joked that I’d make an ... over the years? Can you talk a bit about where your story ideas originate? JC: I didn’t write a male ... together like this? Jennifer Companik: This collection was twelve years in the making. I wrote “The Evil ...
insight into her character than I was able to access before that. It’s also a function of my writing ... a necessary force. You mentioned you tend to draft entire pieces in one burst of writing. How do you make time ... actually got written when my babies would be breastfeeding and fall asleep on me and I would write ...
my journey. TQ: I attended an interview recently that ended on the question, “What makes you happy?” ... so I ask you: Leigh, what makes you happy? LCR: As I read this last question, my husband is sitting ... didn’t end up accepting the story, but we were intrigued enough by its combination of solid writing and ...
"I've seen three babies born and I know what to do as well as any five-dollar liniment man. You just do ... again she refused a medical examination, the failure was certainly hers. "I can tell you one ... resigned. Meanwhile the daughter A vis grew from infant to child. It was clear from the beginning that she ...
But Borden was now bleeding all over. He was, actually, a total mess. He seemed to be breathing, yet ... otherwise he was out of it. And equiva lent to his worth? Jesus, who knew. But it did cross my mind that ... wheeled to a van they had just parked, outside, and I went to check on my bed. The bed was all right, but ...
seemed to under stand anyway. So what if the fifteen-year-old he was actually convicted of murdering had ... it was all right to kill her? And like that, too. There ought to be something you could do to a guy ... a state legislator said death by injection was too good for someone who tortured and murdered fifteen ...
together. TQ: I think I have this right, didn't this book take you a decade to write? LD: Yeah, 11 ... doing this work because it's ruining my writing voice.” TQ: You’ve talked about how The Night of ... early on when I was still getting my bearings, asking “How do you report a personal story?" I was ...