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Interview with Shannon Sanders (opens the original)
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It’s been a while since we’ve run an interview, and I’m thrilled to share one with the incredible Shannon Sanders this morning. We actually ran an interview with her years ago about her story collection, Company, which later won the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes’ Art Seidenbaum Award. Her debut novel, The Great Wherever, is out now, a no
Always getting in my own way (opens the original)
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I finished the first draft of what is probably the best thing I’ve written—what could be my next book, if I can get the courage to ever share it. Otherwise, the manuscript will just live in a drawer.I lost said manuscript a few weeks into writing it. I was working in Word, which I bought ages ago back when you didn’t need a yearly Microsoft subscription for the entire “suite.” I’m typing away in the file I saved as MEMOIR, and I look up and see it’s now called a string of random numbers. So I sa
No one’s coming to save us from ourselves (opens the original)
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I should probably begin letting you know that I’m in a much better place than I was last time I posted. The depression has not only lifted, but I’m feeling more grounded and, well, happy. I’m reading more and writing again. How that happened is a topic for a future post—this one is basically an assignment.Let me explain.The morning after my last June book event, the last I had scheduled for nearly a month, I (temporarily) dyed my hair a bright copper red. When I got to the office, my coworker co
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