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Writing from Multiple Points of View: An Interview With Rachel Stone, Author of THE BLUE IRIS
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Writing from Multiple Points of View: An Interview With Rachel Stone, Author of THE BLUE IRIS

This past fall I read Rachel Stone’s debut novel, The Blue Iris. As a writing coach, one of the things that captured my interest was the fact that the book was written from multiple points of view—nine, to be exact. It’s not unheard of to do this (Lincoln in the Bardo fan here), but it’s…

Food in Fiction

Food in Fiction

When I was a kid, I used to sit in my grandpa’s filling station and eat peanuts I’d poured into my bottle of pop. I didn’t know other people did this until I read a most gratifying account from a student of their own childhood Planters/Pepsi snack. Food is memory and connection. It’s also a…