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The shortest free residencies I could find
Feb 19
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Nina Michiko Tam
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The sublimity of three hundred words a day and a friend
Apr 15
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Nina Michiko Tam
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No NYC, no MFA
Apr 28
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Nina Michiko Tam
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The scary choice to rearrange your life for your writing
May 7
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Nina Michiko Tam
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The terror and thrill of my first edit letter
On whether pressure is a privilege, getting edits back on the first day of a new job, and tackling revisions when I'm the busiest I've ever been
Jun 12
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Nina Michiko Tam
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JD vs. MFA: "Law can circumscribe your world and fiction can break you out"
An interview with Vaishnavi Patel on her latest novel, lawyer tunnel-vision, and going feral
Jun 3
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Nina Michiko Tam
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JD vs. MFA: "Law can circumscribe your world and fiction can break you out"
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You don't have to write every day
On consistency over time, and lessons from running
May 21
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Nina Michiko Tam
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The scary choice to rearrange your life for your writing
On taking a leap
May 7
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Nina Michiko Tam
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No NYC, no MFA
About finding literary community outside NYC
Apr 28
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Nina Michiko Tam
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Week Three of Never Let Me Go: "It felt like the three of us were close again"
On triangular relationships creating propulsion and tension
Jun 2
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Nina Michiko Tam
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Week Three of Never Let Me Go: "It felt like the three of us were close again"
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Week Two of Never Let Me Go: "These incidents now feel full of significance"
On reminiscence creating significance and dread, and the midpoint reveal
May 27
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Nina Michiko Tam
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Week One of Never Let Me Go: "My name is Kathy H."
On the narrative perch in Chapters One through Four
May 20
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Nina Michiko Tam
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Kickoff: A month of Never Let Me Go
Remembering my first reading of this book about memory
May 13
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Nina Michiko Tam
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Join me in reading Never Let Me Go on its 20th anniversary!
A month of trying something new by rereading something twenty-years old
May 6
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Nina Michiko Tam
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