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Adam Morgan

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story

‘I’m a Big Fan of Writing To Find Out What You Don’t Know.’

by Adam Morgan November 8, 2019January 13, 2023

Mark Haber discusses “Reinhardt’s Garden” and its protagonist’s quest for a true understanding of melancholy: “not a feeling but a mood, not a color but a shade, not depression but not happiness either…”

Posted inStory

“We’re All Still Cooking…Still Raw at the Core”: An Interview with Jacqueline Woodson

by Adam Morgan September 30, 2019January 27, 2023

“When I look at that dress and how much intention went into the making of it…it’s like we want to have something that can’t be destroyed, because so much of the past has been destroyed…”

Posted inNonfiction

‘They Happen To Be Our Neighbors Across the Span of a Century, But They’re Our Neighbors.’

by Adam Morgan June 12, 2019February 24, 2023

One hundred summers ago, black Chicagoans were terrorized by whites during the Red Summer. Poet Eve Ewing talks about reaching out to her neighbors across time in “1919.”

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Reimagining Harper Lee’s Lost True Crime Novel: An Interview with Casey Cep

by Adam Morgan May 17, 2019October 19, 2022

“Somewhere along the way it became very clear to me that I was writing the book she never would.”

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘I’m Always Writing Against This Idea That Denver’s a White Space.’

by Adam Morgan April 4, 2019October 19, 2022

Kali Fajardo-Anstine talks about her new short story collection “Sabrina & Corina,” her obsession with dualities, and Chicano and Indigenous history in Denver.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘I Spent Two Years Researching Before I Wrote a Single Line’: Geeking Out With Marlon James

by Adam Morgan February 5, 2019October 19, 2022

Man Booker winner Marlon James immersed himself in African myths and history, so he could use that world as a springboard for a new fantasy series.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science Fiction, Story, Uncategorized

Putting a New Stone on the Grave: Sjón Brings the Golem to Iceland

by Adam Morgan September 13, 2018October 19, 2022

Sjón’s “CoDex 1962” is the fulfillment of a pact he made with the Maharal of Prague in the Old Jewish Cemetery almost three decades ago.

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