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Spring semester: The seniors write their theses. Just kidding...
...Jamison says Ziegler’s work is populated by “people who start as one or two sensationalized details but become fully-realized characters,” including a pair of identical twin brothers and a one-armed fireworks vendor. “She writes fiction in an unusual, complex, cryptic voice full of surprise and mystery,” the agent writes in an e-mail. “She has the ability to write stories that read as if they have been told for hundreds of years...
...case, she says the writer in her was thrilled to hear the refugees’ dramatic experiences. But they won’t be showing up in her short stories any time soon. “Obviously I’m not just going to go write a book about Sudan,” she says. “It would be so obviously written by someone not from Sudan...
...write a lot, I read a lot,” he says...
...indeed egotism. But perhaps this inward focus is also an integral part of what we are supposed to do in college: ground our identities firmly, so that we can recognize where we end, where the world begins, and how we and the world are connected. Perhaps my creative writing can be an exercise in navel-gazing—but the creative process, like our studies, can be self-orientation as well as self-study: not only a means of expression, but also a way of fitting ourselves into a larger system. If these two things are kept balanced...