Megan Grange
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Ben Marcus:
Are you grammar obsessed (more prescriptive grammar, I guess) at the Gary Lutz/David Foster Wallace level? Are there grammar rules that you still can’t seem to get a grasp on?
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Charles Kell
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Ben Marcus:
Dear Ben, I am a huge fan of your texts and find them unlike any other thing being currently written. Can you talk briefly about John Hawkes--your interactions with him; ways he has possibly influenced you; perhaps (and this is cliché) some "writerly" advice he has given to you?
Effie
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Ben Marcus:
How do you convince yourself that what you experience is good enough to be wrestled down into words? Your characters in Leaving the Sea seem like they would have a problem with saying "listen to me." How do you respond to the polar demands of writing: to keep humbly honest (laughing with everything like Saunders), and stay fearlessly self-important (laughing at everything like Joyce)? What happens to your boast/doubt?
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