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Featuring "My Aesthetic Schizophrenia:"  Terrence Hayes talks with Jonathan Moody about the relationship between poet and reader, craft and revision, and the importance of re-reading. "The Reality of the Place:" Tom Haines discusses with Missy Raterman his current project, Crossing Divides, as well as the value of travel, and the intricacies of travel writing.

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No. 8    Nidus: Winter 2005

 

No. 7   Nidus: Fall 2004

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Featuring "Reluctantly,"  we write. Are we "cadaverizing" ourselves? Ellen Smith analyzes the difficulty inherent in the act.. "Where Listening Takes Us:"  Tracy K. Smith talks about her first book, how poems speak to their writers, and her current work in the classroom and out. "That Desire:"  Clea Koff discusses the creation of her first book, journaling, and the role of questions in the work of nonfiction.

 

Featuring "Delicious Vertigo"  Delicious Vertigo: John Rybicki opens up the throttle to take Scott Silsbe on a wild ride about the power of Detroit, poetry, and children. "The Places I Haven't Yet Written About" Ken Foster talks with Don Strange about the mysterious pull of place on his characters, plus the KGB Bar, projects in-the-works, and more. "Hip to be Square"  Hip to be Square: Tony Earley talks with Hattie Fletcher about balancing what we leave in and leave out, morality and cynicism, Harper's, David Foster Wallace, Hank Williams, Willa Cather, Matisse, hard work, and why he needs metaphor.

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No. 6    Nidus: Spring 2004

 

No. 5   Nidus: Winter 2004

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Featuring "Talking to the Dead"  Richard Rodriguez discusses Brown and the role of poetry in creative nofiction. "From Beginnings to Endings"  Dan Chaon responds to a gauntlet of questions covering first lines, forgotten authors, his forthcoming book, and much more. "The Winner of the Lewis "Buddy" Nordan Fiction Contest"

 

Featuring "IMAGE-NATION"  Tony Hoagland decides that when men can't think of a new story it's time to send in the poets. "How We Get Here: An Interview with Kate Gadbow"  The author of Pushed to Shore reveals how her biographical coming of age novel turned into something more. "Adventuring into the Flux of the Story: Sherrie Simpson"  Two resident Alaskans sit down and cross boundaries in creative nonfiction. Plus don't miss Simpson's thoughts on Christopher McCandless and Into the Wild.

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No. 4    Nidus: Spring 2003

 

No. 3          Nidus: Fall 2002

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Featuring Beyond Florida: Inside the Mind of Campbell McGrath: The poet talks about culture, influences, performance poetry and a type of poem called Billy Bob. My Favorite Ethnic Group Is Smart: An Interview with Dagoberto Gilb The author of Woodcuts of Women comments on the magic of character and place and the deeper truth of fiction. A Conversation with Jo Ann Beard The critically-acclaimed essayist enters the anteroom of her imagination to explain how writing isn't for weenies.

Featuring "Got...EDGE?"  Tony Hoagland discusses the pleasure of power in poetry. "Re-Visioning Our History: An Interview with Michelle Cliff." A personal and revealing conversation with the author about her writing, her work, her past, the future. "Breaking the World Open: An Interview with Susan Neville."  The Indiana writer provides an in-depth look at process, coincidence, and vision in her writing.

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No. 2     Nidus: Spring 2002

No. 1           Nidus: Fall 2001

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Featuring nidus talks to Chuck Kinder, whose new novel, Honeymooners, was twenty years in the making: Writing Against the Bone   Creative Nonfiction Roundtable with Lee Gutkind: The Age of Creative Nonfiction

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