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Interview with Carlos Dews by Juan Villacreces

Interview with Carlos Dews by Juan Villacreces

Carlos Dews (1963-), born in Nacogdoches, Texas, holds an M.A. and Ph.D in American Literature (University of Minnesota) and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing (The New School). He is a noted scholar of American novelist Carson McCullers, having written a dissertation on and later edited her autobiography, published as Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (1999).

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Featured Writer, Charlotte Pence: Brad Nolen Interviews Negative Capability's Newest Advisory Editor

Featured Writer, Charlotte Pence: Brad Nolen Interviews Negative Capability's Newest Advisory Editor

Charlotte Pence’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared widely, in publications such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Kenyon Review Online, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Seattle Review, The South Carolina Review, The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Tar River Poetry Review, to list only a few…

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Paolo Febbraro On Writing The Diary of Kaspar Hauser

Paolo Febbraro On Writing The Diary of Kaspar Hauser

There’s a lot I could say about The Diary of Kaspar Hauser. I know the book came into the world after a dear friend of mine, perhaps in 1993, persuaded me to watch a famous Werner Herzog movie, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. I also know that I started to pen the first idea of my work two years later, in June 1995. I recall how the movie’s sequence of events replayed in my mind, and I began to write, in verse, lines which in fantasy I attributed to the main character

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