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The Brevity Podcast Episode #1
The Brevity Podcast is now on the air! The first episode features interviews and readings from bestselling author Dani Shapiro and Brevity author and Pushcart Prize nominee Thaddeus Gunn.
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“The concept of authenticity is much over-hyped these days, and it seems to me a sad state of affairs that it’s something we need to cultivate — as if being authentic is just another act.”
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An Essay Gone Viral: Blogger Stephanie Land on MAID, Her Forthcoming Memoir
Stephanie Land, the writer at Stepville.com, announces her forthcoming memoir, MAID.
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Roald Dahl at 100
September 13 is Roald Dahl’s birthday, and 2016 marks 100 years since his birth. To celebrate, here’s a reading list of seven longreads about the bestselling novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, fighter pilot, and British spy.
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Penguin Roald DahlOn this Penguin site for the bestselling author, browse and sample new collections of Dahl’s short stories for adults: tales of intrigue, desire, greed, and fear. Discover Roald Dahl as you’ve never read him before.
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On Embracing it All
“Essay: to attempt. It never fails to move me when I watch people trying to make sense of their lives, sense of this world. They don’t have to.” Bestselling author Dani Shapiro encourages us to embrace everything in life — the beauty, the terror — and to live.
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Find the Stories: An Interview with Science Writer Ed Yong
“It’s one thing to cover a field by writing about new papers in a piecemeal way, and another to spend over a year truly understanding it.” Matt Shipman interviews science writer Ed Yong on writing and microbial life.
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Wild Ink
On his blog, West Yorkshire-based novelist Richard Smyth publishes short stories and excerpts. His novels include Wild Ink, published in 2014, and his newest novel, Quays, which seeks backers through Unbound, the London-based crowdfunding publisher.
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Remembering Elie Wiesel
“I had the feeling I had known this man all of my life.” Author and Holocaust survivor Ellen Norman Stern on her first meeting with Elie Wiesel, about whom she wrote a young-adult biography.
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Native: An Interview with Arab-Israeli Author Sayed Kashua
At REORIENT, Sarah Aziza engages Sayed Kashua in a wide-ranging conversation on identity, exile, and being an Arab author writing in Hebrew.
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Worth
Holly Wren Spaulding reflects on making art: “These acts originate in my commitment, my pact with myself, to pay attention to life — my one and only life — and the little world I inhabit.”
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Jay Kristoff – Literary Giant
This is the site of Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling author of Illuminae, a science fiction series, and the Nevernight fantasy series.
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Draft No. 4
Author Richard Gilbert’s blog, Draft No. 4, explores storytelling in creative nonfiction and fiction, with special emphasis on style, structure, and use of self in narrative prose.
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Writers and Artists on Creative Habits, Accepting Self-Doubt, and the Rewards of Perseverance
Working writers and artists offer advice on inspiration and perseverance.
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Mark Manson“I write personal development advice that doesn’t suck.” On the website of author, blogger, and entrepreneur Mark Manson, you’ll find articles about life — from psychology, to dating and relationships, to choice.
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