Poets & Writers – September 2019

SEPT OCT 2019 58 Q&A TÉA OBREHT AMY GALL’s writing has appeared in Tin House, Vice, Glamour, and the anthology Mapping Queer ...

59 POETS & WRITERS^ Q&A TÉA OBREHT about 1883 and 1893. Then one day a guy who had seen a little bit of the world looked ...

boom-and-bust industries and towns prospering on the back of this very shaky kind of dream. Everyone piled into land where they ...

Q&A TÉA OBREHT 61 POETS & WRITERS^ incredible solitude and how everything for someone like that must exist in the m ind. ...

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The New 2019 Nonfiction 63 POETS & WRITERS^ Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene page 64 Love Drones by Noam Dorr page 65 ...

W hen people ask me how I wrote my memoir, Once More We Saw Stars, I find myself at a loss for words. The irony is not lost on m ...

65 POETS & WRITERS^ NONFICTION 2019 I grew up on a kibbutz in Israel, and when I turned eighteen I became an intelligence an ...

SEPT OCT 2019 66 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33711 JANUARY 18-25, 2020 16 TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS IN ...

67 POETS & WRITERS^ Orleans—either-or. But creating such dichotomy on the page felt like the op- posite of what I wanted to ...

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69 POETS & WRITERS^ scrappy elasticity of the essay, loved spending time in this place where you bring everything along, whe ...

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71 POETS & WRITERS^ ma ri a^ e sq ui nc a NONFICTION 2019 O rdinary Girls is about my girlhood in Puerto Rico and Miami Beac ...

B EN George’s arrival in big publishing was more of a vault than a climb, and it surprised him as much as anybody. “Being a New ...

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SEPT OCT 2019 74 M. ALLEN CUNNINGHAM is the author of nine books, most recently the novel Perpetua’s Kin, a reworking of Shakesp ...

75 POETS & WRITERS^ brought about your shift from fiction writing to editing? Somewhere along the way I realized that I was ...

SEPT OCT 2019 76 something and it’s amazing, one of my first thoughts is, “Oh my God, another ed itor is goi ng to preempt t h i ...

77 POETS & WRITERS^ work it takes to bring a writer to that level. What’s your perspective on the plight of midlist writers ...