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Interview: Fisher the Bookseller Explains How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell
The ins and outs of how books are bought and sold in bookstores
Nov 6
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing
Oct 21
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Mads Gobbo and Miles Klee Wrote Double Black Diamond
The authors on literary collaboration, small press publishing, hooking readers with unusual sentences, and the need to “speak other futures into…
Aug 29
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: Why Benjamin Percy Is Writing a Novel as a Newspaper with Stephen King
The author on writing across mediums, the appeal of physical objects, and working with the legendary Stephen King
Aug 4
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Mattie Lubchansky Wrote and Illustrated Simplicity
The author and illustrator on utopian fiction, science fiction satire, and "skepticism for how things are done and how things can be different"
Jul 29
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Lincoln Michel
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Interview: Editor Sean deLone on How Modern Publishing Actually Works
A conversation about the evolving role of editors, how books get "into shape," and the good and bad of publishing today
Jun 19
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Julia Elliott Wrote Hellions
The author on genre-bending, psychedelic Southern summers, and lyrical language as "the magic key that enables you to slip between worlds"
Apr 15
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Kevin Nguyen Wrote Mỹ Documents
The author on grounding fiction in history, writing while having a full-time job, and being “as generous or cruel as you want to your characters.”
Apr 8
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Vauhini Vara Wrote Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
The author on writing with and without AI, the beauty of human storytelling, and the biases of big tech.
Apr 4
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Sam Bett Translated Osamu Dazai
On translating comedy, men as erratic and emotional creatures, and "the original bad boy of modern Japanese fiction"
Feb 18
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How David Small Illustrated and Wrote The Werewolf at Dusk
The artist on weird fiction, the appeal of giant monsters, and illustrating short stories.
Oct 31, 2024
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Jeff VanderMeer Wrote Absolution
The author on the importance of structure, revision, and writing "in the grip of an ecstatic vision."
Oct 22, 2024
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Lincoln Michel
77
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