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… list, and writers as varied as Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, and Zadie Smith herald her as an … fantasy. And fiction, the genre she admittedly felt most comfortable talking about, was the occasion for the … pretty late in the history of literature that both these points of view arise. Henry James did the limited third …
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… Second Pass, how would you judge your progress? Have you accomplished what you set out to do? What has surprised you … the site on a regular basis, and try to start building an audience. I feel like I’ve done all that. Unless you’re a name … which, luckily, I think I have. Having said that, my goals for the second year (and onward) are a bit different. …
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… who do extraordinary things worthy of the big screen—to complement our Winter 2013 issue . This installment … to AIDS (which was called GRID then); your first child died a few hours after her birth; your next child suffered a … Virginia; she blogs regularly for VQR. Visit her website at jenniferniesslein.com . By Jennifer Niesslein …
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… I always felt very lucky—and they did, too—that they had come here. When I was growing up, Jackson had much more of … made me feel that I was in touch with something. My father died young, and my mother always encouraged me to write. She … You know, the South is a big place. As Reynolds Price points out, it is as big as France. And we do not live in …
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… widely anthologized and published in numerous literary journals (including an essay in VQR in 1990). However, in … experience the terror of presenting work before an audience of critics. Over the years I am always re-learning … a good thing, because the interview or conversation becomes a discipline in paying close attention and in choosing …
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… how she speaks. In her down-to-earth manner, she presents complex ideas in concrete, understandable ways. And in the … And you don’t know what you’re doing until either someone points it out, or you see it yourself. LDA: As a parent, I’m … not another copy but a fresh attempt made in its own full-bodied right and out of its own impulse, with its own pressure …