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Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

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I wanted to create a character who was broken…  deeply broken…  a character who wanted to disappear from the world and be very quiet so as not to hurt others…  but who nevertheless brought pain where ever he went.more

PAULA BOMER

PAULA BOMER

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I had been trying to write a novel called Gaslit for about 7 years, on and off, and it went nowhere. There’s no other way to explain it but a man’s voice came to me, and off I went. Gaslit turned into The Stalker. more

Jordan Harper

Jordan Harper

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I always say, “I don’t do action. I do violence.” I want the violence to hit. And the way I do that is I focus on making it as small as possible. To me, a machine gun isn’t as dramatic as a six-shooter, and a six-shooter isn’t as dramatic as a baseball bat. The more you can make it about one body trying to affect another body, change you, break you, really that’s the way to head, because we’ve all felt pain.more

Curtis Ippolito

Curtis Ippolito

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I didn’t set out to shock anyone with the sexual abuse; but I also knew it was my job to be honest there, report on the atrocities or else I don’t think Marcus’ motives as an adult would have rung true.more

William Taylor Jr.

William Taylor Jr.

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I’d look out my window at 2 a.m. and there’d be some guy just sitting in his car and crying, and a few feet away there were some homeless folk whacked out of their minds on something, fucking on the sidewalk, all the tech bros spilling out of the bars, roving around in howling packs.more

David Tromblay

David Tromblay

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I never concern myself with plot. I create characters, give them something to do, and put shit in the way. At the keyboard, I’m both the Lord and Lucifer, and my characters are all Job.more

Nick Kolakowski

Nick Kolakowski

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I’ve spent my life obsessed with the contrast between Hollywood’s glitz and its gritty underbelly. I see it as a microcosm of America itself: we’re always selling an image of what we are, but that image is secured with blood and plunder.more

JEN JOHANS

JEN JOHANS

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I was that weirdo whose first film crush was on Robert De Niro in MIDNIGHT RUN around the same time that everyone else my age were all about the guys from BEVERLY HILLS 90210. Not too many kids in 4th or 5th grade got excited to ID character actors like Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, & Joe Mantegna in movies but I did.more

JONATHAN EVISON

JONATHAN EVISON

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At the end of the day, our struggles define us as much as anything else. I think the people who are most content are the people who have struggled and overcome the most. There’s more value in things that don’t come easy.more

Henry Wise

Henry Wise

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I realized that language can be more than the vehicle for a story; it can be the lens through which the reader sees the world. For me, the cadence of the language came to mirror the setting of Euphoria County—with its mysterious flora, its snaking roads, and its trapped secrets.more

K.T. NGUYEN

K.T. NGUYEN

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The trauma of war can ripple across generations and bleed through borders. You can arrive in the United States or come back home to the United States, but you’ve left a piece of your sanity behind.more

Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin

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I’ve always been drawn to people who were a little banged up, a little wobbly on their feet. I think, most likely, because I’ve always felt that way. I’ve always been balancing on the edge of trying and giving up. Keeping my shit together or destructing.more

Jake Hinkson

Jake Hinkson

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I wanted to tell a story set in that world that would also be a pretty accurate description of that world. People aren’t cliches. No one perfectly fits into a stereotype, even when they commit their whole life to being a stereotype.more

Francois Bereaud

Francois Bereaud

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I try to let my characters run around, elude being massacred, and hope that some lyricism falls into a line once in a while. more

William Boyle

William Boyle

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I always start with character and place. I put the characters in desperate situations, usually in my part of southern Brooklyn, and see what develops from there. There’s drama just in watching lives unfold. The natural drama of being alive. Throw some secrets and lies and betrayals into the mix and shit gets amped up.more

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