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Zan Romanoff

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘I Want Every Sentence To Be Doing Work’: An Interview with Miranda Popkey

by Zan Romanoff February 4, 2020December 16, 2022

“Something I did learn writing this book is that being impressed by something doesn’t mean you should try and do it.”

Posted inBooks, Fiction, History, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time Is Going To Change You.’

by Zan Romanoff November 19, 2019January 13, 2023

Nina MacLaughlin discusses her retelling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “[In] my very vague high school memories…there was no discussion of the fact that this book is just rape after rape after rape.”

Posted inStory

‘I’m Incredulous That People Do This Repeatedly. The Second Book Thing Is So Real.’

by Zan Romanoff September 5, 2019January 27, 2023

Mary H.K. Choi discusses her latest novel, which examines how “holograms and digital envoys” represent us online, and why it feels like her “second book signals the death of my first.”

Posted inBooks, Crime, History, investigations, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

A Manson Murder Investigation 20 Years In the Making: ‘There Are Still Secrets’

by Zan Romanoff June 27, 2019October 19, 2022

‘Everything that Manson did with his women was exactly what the CIA was trying to do with people without their knowledge, in the exact same time, at the exact same place.’

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

‘Every Woman Writer Feels Like She’s Starting Over Without Any Guides’

by Zan Romanoff February 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Ann Leckie talks about “The Raven Tower,” the erasure of women writers from the canon, the privilege inherent to ‘the anxiety of influence,’ and the power of tradition.

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