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Writing advice from authors – delivered via podcast
17 Jul 2017

Writing advice from authors – delivered via podcast

by Karen Palmer | posted in: Writing Advice | 0

Finding the New Yorker Fiction podcast felt like stumbling upon a private classroom, just me and three incredible instructors: the story’s author, the author reading for the podcast and Deborah Treisman, the magazine’s fiction editor. On a monthly basis, Treisman invites … Continued

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Strange Fiction
17 Jun 2016

Strange Fiction

by Karen Palmer | posted in: Writing Advice | 0

The recent death of Katherine Dunn, author of “Geek Love,” has me thinking about Strange Fiction. In Geek Love, Dunn writes about a family whose patriarch has played God, introducing chemicals to transform his children into circus freaks. Geek Love … Continued

fiction, short stories, strange fiction

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