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A Lesson in Listening for Novelists

A Talent for Listening I only recently procured a copy of Working by Studs Terkel for my library. Going through it is like a veritable smorgasbord of stories from all across the country of ordinary people talking about what they … Continue reading

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How Do You Internalize?

Novelists as Sponges We novelists have a basic propensity toward being sponges – we soak up so many things around us. And if we don’t actually start out that way we soon train our senses to do exactly that. We … Continue reading

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