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#41: Frodo Baggins Dreams of Hobbit Helmets
J.R.R. Tolkien, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, C.L. Clark.
Jun 5
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May 2023
#40: Imagining a Future of Mutual Aid
Rebecca Solnit, The Last of Us, Cormac McCarthy, N.K. Jemisin, Jonathan Lethem, Diane Cook, Ander Monson, Kerry Howley, Victor LaValle, John Cotter.
May 1
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March 2023
#39: Enlivening Dialogue with Telling Action
Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Keaton, Gene Hackman, Iron Man, Thor, Julia Armfield.
Mar 1
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February 2023
#38: The Protagonist Trap
Brian Evenson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alyssa Songsiridej, Danya Kukafka, Annie Ernaux.
Feb 1
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January 2023
#37: Chapter Beginnings (and Transitions)
Meg Howrey, Torrey Peters, S.A. Cosby, Victor LaValle, Julia May Jonas, Sam Lipsyte, Tom Robbins, Ann Hood.
Jan 5
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December 2022
#36: No Failure, Only Practice
Gordon Lish, Hilary Mantel, Bonnie Nadzam, Matthew Salesses, Jane Smiley, Melissa Febos, Montesquieu
Dec 1, 2022
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October 2022
Exercise #35: Entry, Transition, Exploration
Portal Fantasy, C.S. Lewis, Alix E. Harrow, Karen Russell, Alan Moore, Seth Dickinson, Stephen King, Peter Straub.
Oct 4, 2022
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September 2022
Exercise #34: The Annotated Debut
Stephen King, Megan Giddings, Jonathan Franzen, Douglas Adams
Sep 2, 2022
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August 2022
Exercise #33: Writing Physical Action with Embodied Perception and Consecution
Brian Evenson, Cormac McCarthy, Garth Greenwell, James Clavell, Elvia Wilk, Norman Lock, Yan Ge
Aug 3, 2022
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July 2022
Exercise #32: Four Scenes About Power
Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Eugene Marten, Arkady Martine, Chris Gonzalez, Bojan Louis, Daniel José Older.
Jul 5, 2022
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June 2022
Exercise #31: How to Not Stop Saying the Thing You Shouldn't Say
Chris Bachelder, Robert Boswell, Nicola Griffith, Adrienne Celt, Eugene Marten, Arkady Martine.
Jun 1, 2022
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May 2022
Exercise #30: The Novel-Shaped Story II
Antoine Wilson, C.L. Clark, Jesse Ball, Blake Snyder, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jennifer Schuessler
May 1, 2022
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