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- Trade: Snapshots of African Traders in Hong Kong and China Wendy Thompson Taiwo
graphic fiction
- Hush Mara Sternberg
nonfiction
- Clippings From an Old Man’s Life John Barta
- Behind the Wheel Lucas Robinson
- Adult Onset Allergies Shoshana Rubin
- Excerpt: City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and ’50s William Weintraub
poetry
- Meeting in the Agora After Phaethon’s Fall—Sestina Lina Branter
- Vertigo Emily Davidson
- The Irises Abby Paige
- Three Versions of Scarlet Lesley Pasquin
- Eurydice Jeannine M. Pitas
- Rain Yesterday, Rain Tomorrow K. V. Skene
fiction
- Picnic Sarah Gilbert
- Mariner’s Trance Sean Jackson
- Insatiable Jane Kerrison
- Singing in the Dark Peter Kirby
- Something Important and Delicate Mark Paterson
- Euclid’s Five Postulates translated by Pablo Strauss
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carte blanche Q&A with William Weintraub
Writing novels is much more of an emotional task. It can be exhilarating and depressing. Suddenly you have insights and it’s going well, and you feel wonderful, and the next day it looks awful. Writing nonfiction makes different demands on your ability to differentiate between what’s going to be interesting to the reader and what isn’t. The discoveries of relationships between things and people that come to you in writing nonfiction, as was the case for me in City Unique, become more clear to you as you do the research—so the rewards in writing nonfiction are largely in the research, which is followed by the craftsmanship of putting it down on paper. [Read more...]