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On Structure

On Structure

In our final installment of video clips from “The Engines of Fiction” panel last month at the 7th Annual Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho and Elizabeth McKenzie share their approaches to thinking about structure in fiction.

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Aaron Bauer on “Il y a”

Aaron Bauer on “Il y a”

XXXXOne of the more formally intriguing pieces in the Angry Baby anthology is a hybrid form—“Il ya,” by Aaron Bauer. (There’s also an invented language by Craig McDaniel.) Below Aaron discusses how his powerful piece came about: Babies and writing have been...

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On Structure

Sustaining Suspense

We won’t keep you in suspense any longer: In our third installment of excerpts from the “The Engines of Fiction” panel at the 7th Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival (held in April at the University of Cincinnati), we hear from fiction writers Jung Yun, Elizabeth...

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Julianna Baggott on “Marie Curie’s Monster Baby”

Julianna Baggott on “Marie Curie’s Monster Baby”

Another contributor to A Very Angry Baby: The Anthology provides insight on her story’s conception: I was obsessed with Marie Curie years ago while writing a series of poems about her and her daughter, some of which were part of my collection called Lizzie Borden in...

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The Art of TONE

The Art of TONE

In the second installment of our video clips from the 7th Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival (held at the University of Cincinnati in April), Jung Yun and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho discuss their approaches to tone.

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Josh Russell on “Apple Girl”

Josh Russell on “Apple Girl”

In the coming weeks, we will present many of the contributors to A Very Angry Baby discussing the pieces published in Acre’s anthology. Today, Josh Russell on “Apple Girl”: Every night for several years I read to my daughter from the 200 stories collected in Italian...

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