I had one of those Dr. Seuss “All About Me” books as a kid, and where it asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wrote “Writer-doctor-Olympic figure skater-mother.” Two out of four isn’t bad! [Read more]

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The books that I feel closer to are the ones that are part of my existence in an almost biological way. The paper of their pages has become my flesh. [Read more]

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Mom says I was copying words from the dictionary, trying to write a book before I could read. That’s pretty arrogant. [Read

more]

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Challenge
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In the early 1980’s I worked with El Salvadoran refugees. They fled the civil war in El Salvador which lasted from 1980-1992. They shared with me what was happening in their country and the atrocities committed. [Read more]

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It’s always good to keep your agent happy. [Read more]

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   Line Breaks: “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel

My first mentor would probably be my mother and all that reading and love of the classics. [Read more]

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Kirk Farber is the author of the debut novel Postcards from a Dead Girl (Harper Perennial 2010). Postcards is a March 2010 “Indie Next” selection, and was previously a semi-finalist in the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. [Read more]

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2/15
   Checking in

with Hypertext Fiction

I like to think we have a lot of writing teeth. Some are slow and painful or impacted, and you pay a lot of attention to those. But then you wake up the next morning and you’ve cut a completely different tooth that you didn’t know you had. And the trick is to let all the teeth fall out on their own. If you try and pull them, the gums retain the memory of that loss. [Read more]

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Gina Frangello is the author of the novel My Sister’s Continent (Chiasmus 2006) and the collection Slut Lullabies (forthcoming from Emergency Press in 2010.) The longtime Editor of Other Voices magazine, she co-founded its book imprint, Other Voices Books, now an imprint of Dzanc Books, in 2005 and is currently the Executive Editor of the press’ Chicago office. [Read more]

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What story or book do you feel closest to?

I would sleep with Calvino anytime.

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