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Aug 5, 2024

It's a mid-year check in with the Chicago Review of Books! 

Rachel:
Shayla Lawson’s How To Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
Lindsay Hunter’s Hot Springs Drive
Nora Decter’s What’s Not Mine
Ananda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr!
Gianni Washington’s...


Jul 1, 2024

In this episode, author Claire Lombardo discusses throughlines, visualizing a story, outlining after drafting, pacing, working on multiple projects, and how the second book is the hardest you'll write.
 
https://www.clairelombardo.com/
 


Jun 2, 2024

In this episode, Ian Endsley talks writing for video games, player choice, dialogue, constraints, examples of great writing in games, and the feeling of space.
 
Turnfollow's Games 
https://www.turnfollow.site/
 
Stories Matter Foundation


Apr 29, 2024

In this episode Ananda Lima joins us to discuss poetry, framing short stories, what is horror, great editors, the texture of magical elements, finding a project that fits, and having fun.
 
https://www.anandalima.com/
 


Mar 25, 2024

In this episode, author Cyn Vargas discusses emotion, the novella, discovering the length of a story, trusting the process, family dynamics in fiction, young perspective, providing for the reader, residencies, finishing your story, and finding what is not being said between characters.
 
https://www.cynvargas.com/