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Category Archives: Experience Required

Messing Up the Drawing Room: Wharton, Olsen, and the Quest for Validation
Essays / Experience Required

Messing Up the Drawing Room: Wharton, Olsen, and the Quest for Validation

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Juhi • 1 Comment

by Jessica Levine

In retrospect, I see the nine years I spent working on my Ph.D. as a similar kind of detour, a quest for a lineage that might give me a right to speak. Continue reading →

The Desk Drawer Novel: A Tale of Urgency, Panic, and Truth
Essays / Experience Required / Features

The Desk Drawer Novel: A Tale of Urgency, Panic, and Truth

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Juhi • 2 Comments

by Robin Black

A writer, of whatever age, needs to concern herself with the writing, its quality and its promise; and anxieties of any other kind . . . will always do more to hinder than to help. Continue reading →

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: “Up ‘Til Now”
Debut Authors / Essays / Experience Required / Features

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: “Up ‘Til Now”

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Lisa Peet • 1 Comment

by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Gone were the twenty-hour work days; now we were talking twenty-four hours. Seven days a week. The emotional, psychological, and physical needs of two human beings, non-stop. And the dream of being a writer seemed not only impossible but also, quite frankly, inconsequential. Continue reading →

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: The Story and The Telling
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EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: The Story and The Telling

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Shawn Vestal

The gap between the story’s events and the telling — omissions, limitations, manipulations of time, voice, the metaphorical landscape — comes to feel, at least to me, . . . like the essence of what literature is. Continue reading →

Getting Started, Keeping Going: Peter Ferry’s Tricks of the Trade
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Getting Started, Keeping Going: Peter Ferry’s Tricks of the Trade

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Peter Ferry

I write on faith. I love E.L. Doctorow’s analogy that writing is like driving a car at night: you can’t see very far ahead, but you don’t have to, because by the time you get there, you’ll be able to see farther. Continue reading →

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: “Match Dot Comedy”
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EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: “Match Dot Comedy”

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Juhi • 1 Comment

by Susannah B. Mintz

In March I met Kevin, a nonconformist with cats who studied English and psychology in college and didn’t seem put-off by my description of myself as a cranky bookworm. Continue reading →

See It Then, See It Now
Essays / Experience Required / Features / In Their Own Words

See It Then, See It Now

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Dena Santoro

Edward R. Murrow visited Johnstown on a snowy day in January, 1956. It was Bill’s ninth year, and his future wife Agnes’s ninth day at her job in television traffic. Continue reading →

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