Be Generous to Be a Better Writer

Christmas Day has come, and my gift to you, as it is every Tuesday, is a new episode of my podcast, Writing the Wrong Way. Last week, I tackled the topic of productivity, and this week (in keeping with the holiday), I want to talk about generosity.  I believe writers should be generous. At its […]

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The Doll’s Alphabet (Camilla Grudova)

The best touchstone for Camilla Grudova’s debut collection of short stories is not the writing of her literary peers but the filmmaking of David Lynch, who is best known now for the television series Twin Peaks but first notorious for the cult film Eraserhead. Grudova’s fictional worlds, like Lynch’s filmed worlds, are closed, insular realms, […]

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