Ten Quick Questions with… Elizabeth Strout

1. Your desert-island read:
It was not publication that ever made me feel like a writer. Publication only made other people think I was a writer. I always knew.
–conducted by Joshua Garstka
1. Your desert-island read:
It was not publication that ever made me feel like a writer. Publication only made other people think I was a writer. I always knew.
–conducted by Joshua Garstka
Much like the games they glamorize, gambling narratives are fraught with risk. They risk losing the reader in the minutiae of strategy and tactics.
When Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was published, in 2010, the British Daily Telegraph called it “the first great American novel of the post-Obama era.” If that sounds oddly specific (not to mention premature), they at least had good reason for it: the title of “first great American novel of the 21st century” had already been awarded…
Valerie Brennan is the artist whose painting appears on the cover of our Spring 2011 issue, guest edited by Colm Toibin. I (the web/marketing editor here at Ploughshares) asked her a few questions about this particular painting, current inspirations, and her work in general. Ploughshares: First off, is there an answer to the question “What…
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