Last week, Carrie Fountain launched her new novel, I’m Not Missing, at Book People, here in Austin, and I couldn’t wait to hear her talk about her writing process. Fountain started as a poet, and I was particularly curious about how she thought the two disciplines—poetry and prose—worked together.
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While there will always be snobs and sticklers out there waiting to criticize us for reading and writing “the wrong things,” I think what’s important is that we’re reading and writing whatever we feel compelled to read and write.
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Page Turners is part of my "Literary Luminary" series, featuring insights on writing and publishing straight from the folks who do it for a living. Page Turner Marie Sweetman is an acquisitions editor at Wayne State University Press in Detroit, MI. She acquires scholarly work in the areas of fairy-tale studies and film and media studies.
Read moreIndependent Bookstore: The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Est. 1927
The phone rang behind the desk and the clerk turned away from our chat to answer it. I was the only customer in this 400-something square-foot space, so I couldn’t help overhear her end of the conversation. She used words like “marketing campaign,” “Facebook,” and “Tumblr.” Those words sounded strange in this space, as if it were still 1927 inside.
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