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Tag Archives: interview
Roundup: Conversations and Collaborations Among Writers
As we launch a new blog format for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain theme to help … Continue reading
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Tagged Alicia Jo Rabins, Carol Keeley, Catherine Carter, interview, Karolin Felix, Michael Klein, Ovid, Pulitzer Prize, Roundup, roundups, Tracy K. Smith, walker percy
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Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents: Deborah Clearman
“You can say anything with kindness” is the oft-repeated phrase of most professors in writing workshops. It’s a reminder, of course, to speak the truth in our criticism of each other’s work, but to speak it gently. It’s one way … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged Deborah Clearman, Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life, interview, interviews, Patricia Caspers, poetry
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The Physics of Fiction, the Music of Philosophy: an Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s astonishments as a philosopher and as a novelist are too numerous to list here. Already launched in her career as a philosophy professor, she reached a moment in her own life when philosophical inquiry no longer felt … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged fiction, Guest Bloggers, interview, novel, Rachel Kadish, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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Tips and Tricks: an Interview with Tom Parker
For today’s post, I am interviewing my long-time writing coach and mentor Tom Parker. I first met Tom at a writer’s workshop run out of University of California, Berkeley six years ago. He was the professor, and I was an … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, fiction, Guest Bloggers, interview, mentor, Thomas Lee, tips, Tom Parker, writing workshops
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Learning to Listen: an Interview with Susan Power
When I first started reading Susan Power’s novel, The Grass Dancer, I knew little about her. We’d met briefly through a mutual friend, and I knew that Susan had been a fellow at Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute. I also knew from … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged fiction, Guest Bloggers, interview, Rachel Kadish, Susan Power
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Writing Fiction, Writing Plays, Writing Voice: an Interview with Carol Gilligan
I first met Carol Gilligan in 1994. I’d read In a Different Voice in college, and had been intrigued by that book’s observation that women’s voices change the moral conversation…so when I met Carol I was prepared to see her … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol Gilligan, fiction, interview, Kyra, nonfiction, plays, Rachel Kadish
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An Interview with Emerging Writer’s Contest Winner Thomas Lee
Thomas Lee is the first winner of our Emerging Writer’s Contest. His story, “The Gospel of Blackbird,” appears in the current Alice Hoffman issue, and he is also one of our new guest bloggers. We sat down and spoke with … Continue reading
