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  • July 30, 2018

    The Part of It You Don't See

    If you’ve been reading my dispatches over the last month, you might have inferred that making a go of it as a writer is hard. Bending reality, memory, knowledge and experience into believable fiction, ...

  • On writing politically, or how not to make your fiction sound like a lecture
    On writing politically, or how not to make your fiction sound like a lecture
    March 21, 2018

    On writing politically, or how not to make your fiction sound like a lecture

    When I started writing my most recent novel, The Conjoined, I began with the idea of subverting classic crime fiction, something that I thought would be a fun bookish game. What if I could write a literary ...

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