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Elaine Castillo on Reading as Investigation
Castillo treats reading less like taste and more like investigation, pushing on who gets treated as universal and who gets asked to explain themselves.
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Louise Erdrich on Building a Novel Over Time
Erdrich does not sit down to start a novel. She lets notes and half-scenes pile up for years until the pile turns out to be a book.
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Nnedi Okorafor on Writing the Book That Scares You
Okorafor's rule is blunt: if an idea scares you, that is probably the one to write. She is also done arguing about where literary ends and genre begins.