“Before I became a ghostwriter, the only part of myself I put into my writing, other than trying to make it as good as I could, was whatever I was trying to unearth about my own experience by camouflaging it through my fiction.”
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Marcus Jackson’s Advice for Poets: Be Stubborn
The author of “Pardon My Heart” says the writing life is about stubbornness and luck.
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Ada Limón’s Advice for Writers on the Move
“If I’m doing laundry, raking leaves, getting the car fixed . . . I’m still writing.”
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Dana Spiotta’s 6 Steps for Writing a Novel
“Don’t write what you know. Start with what you don’t know, what you don’t understand.”
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Our Hopes for the Southern Review of Books at Queens
Our wish for the Southern Review of Books is for it to be an extension of what we strive for at Queens.
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