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A Roller-Coaster
Ride of Violence and Sex
Aleksandar Hemon
and Sean McDonald
Authors & Editors in Conversation
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From the title
alone, Aleksandar Hemon's new novel, The
Making of Zombie Wars, suggests that the author is up
to something new and different. And while it's not exactly what you'd call
a traditional "zombie novel," Hemon does admit that it could be
described as a "roller-coaster ride of violence and sex." Here,
he talks to his editor, Sean McDonald, about how he changed up his writing
process for this book, even enrolling in a screenwriting workshop; why this
book maybe isn't so different from his earlier books; and the challenges of
being "funny all the way through."
Read on...
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Finding a Way Home
Mary Costello on
the transformation of fact into fiction
On Writing
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Mary Costello's
latest novel, Academy
Street, follows Tess Lohan from her girlhood in western
Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding
with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile.
Here, Costello shares a beautiful meditation on her mother's family home -
how its emotional resonances bled into and help inform her novel, and how
imagining the lives of her immigrant family gave shape to the life of her
protagonist.
Read on...
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"Here Come
the Drum Majorettes!"
James Fenton
Selected by Joshua Mehigan
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When I first saw
James Fenton read onstage, I found myself, midway through this poem,
staring at his head with my jaw set and my mouth moronically ajar. I didn't
have a mirror, but if I try to imagine my face, I think of footage I saw,
once, of confused but amenable teenagers watching Hendrix for the first
time from a studio audience. "Holy shit!"
I thought. "That
is a poet!" I
turned to my wife, who was also staring with her mouth open. Other faces in
the audience looked much the same.
Read on...
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