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...Hempel is widely regarded as the queen of the American short story. She has published several collections and has received countless awards for her fiction. As she prepares for her latest honor—the PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story—FM caught up with Harvard’s newest Briggs-Copeland lecturer to talk about craft, the weather, and Wanita, her yellow...
...beach community too. I was urging students that I have here to think about place in terms of what happens in a certain place that doesn’t happen somewhere else, or anywhere else. And that’s how I look at place in fiction. It always interests me that what happens in one place doesn’t happen somewhere else. There’s this book by Saramago, a recent novel, “Death With Interruptions.” He writes about a town in which nobody dies. So, that’s a pretty...
...teach two fiction courses here at Harvard—“Intro to Fiction Writing” and “Advanced Fiction Writing.” What advice do you have for your students or other aspiring writers...
...level such retaliations in the wake of the national imbroglio that is the health-care “debate.” And even if the administration could critique Fox from a position of unquestionable credibility, ad hominem assaults are not the way to dispel the fogs of fiction...
Average price for a hardcover fiction book in 2008, according to the School Library Journal. The average price for a hardcover nonfiction book...