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Asher Price

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I'm a writer in Austin, Tex.: I've written two books, one to be published in May 2015 by Crown called Year of the Dunk. And I'm a staff reporter at the Austin American-Statesman.

I live in an old Austin house with my wife, who edits the journal American Short Fiction, and Poppy, our scruffy, disreputable-looking dog.

I grew up in New York City, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, shipped off to Yale for college, where I met my wife, a native Austinite, and after grad school in England landed a job at the newspaper down here.

Austin's a great town: yummy food, wonderful music, and, for a reporter like me, fascinating politics. So as much as I miss my family and my old school friends back in New York City, I'm a committed card-carrying (driver's ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Asher Price I've been lucky enough to sidestep writer's block -- knock on wood! I think this is largely due to my day job: I'm a journalist, and that keeps me in …moreI've been lucky enough to sidestep writer's block -- knock on wood! I think this is largely due to my day job: I'm a journalist, and that keeps me in the practice of coming up with ideas and banging out copy. I'm very fortunate that way. And while I think carefully about my reporting and writing and take pride in my journalism work (and I'm lucky to be working with excellent editors at my newspaper), working at a daily newspaper fast teaches you not to be too precious about it all -- your stories need to bend to the realities of space (or column-inches available to you) and the need to get your point across quickly to readers. In other words, you learn a certain kind of discipline. (less)

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Asher Price For me, writing is like solving a puzzle. It's less about being inspired than about figuring out how to piece together disparate facts into an interes…moreFor me, writing is like solving a puzzle. It's less about being inspired than about figuring out how to piece together disparate facts into an interesting narrative. This is what I try to do every day in my work, as a newspaper reporter in Austin, and it's the challenge I face, on a much wider scale, in my book writing. The most satisfying part of my work is when I land on a way to fit the pieces together.(less)

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