Category: Artists on Craft Series
An Interview with Jennifer Haupt
When I first started writing fiction, it really helped me to stay out of my depression world.
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An Interview with Beth Kephart
Don’t save your work. Don’t save something because it feels precious. What feels precious in the moment will grow dusty over time. Use what you have when it is electrifying to you.
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On Poetry: Experience the Revelation
The idea, I think, is to have the poem somehow feel as if it is tracking that realization in real time, showing it as still live and squirming, rather than only dead and captured, even if that is not — and cannot be — true in the most literal sense.
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An Interview with Ross Gay
We are thrilled to have Ross Gay offer his thoughts on the writing life and his process.
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Using What I Have
Now that I’m engaged in revisions to my big book, my process reminds me more than ever of those years as a fabric artist.
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An Interview with Emily Bernard
The attention and accolades are wonderful. It’s so vindicating and it means a lot. But it doesn’t get up and write a sentence for you.
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A Conversation with Author Lyz Lenz
The secret to success for Lenz, the now-single mother of two: “I don’t ever quit.”
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An Interview with Author Marion Roach Smith
If we share our humanity, I think we do better in this world.
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A Conversation with Artist Catherine Bancroft
Painting seems to me fundamentally about joy – the child’s joy messing with thick gooey stuff, with the wildness of red, the coolness of blue, with putting your own mark down and having people react to it.
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A Conversation with Reema Zaman
Writing started giving me this deep feeling of pleasure that was independent of anyone else’s opinion.
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A Novel Year
My resolve returns. I won’t be deterred. The inner critic hunkers down, like my dog at my feet when I sit at my writing desk.
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The Art of Dialogue
Dialogue isn’t just about spoken words. What the characters do with their hands and bodies as they speak or while the other person is speaking is just as important as the speech itself.
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