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Jessica Murphy Moo

Jessica Murphy, a former Atlantic staff editor, is the 2006-2007 Milton Center writing fellow in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine and her fiction is forthcoming in Memorious magazine.

Issue August 2008

Obituary

The marina had a proposition for him. They wanted him to leave, and they were willing to pay him to do it.… More »

Of Horses and Children

Aryn Kyle talks about the American West as a character, writing from a child's perspective, and her debut novel, The God of Animals… More »

The Younger Side of Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby, the author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Fever Pitch, talks about the pitfalls of contemporary literary culture, his ambition to be the male Anne Tyler, and his new novel for young adults… More »

Writers in Training

Edward J. Delaney discusses the country's best graduate writing programs and how to compare them… More »

Dark Rememberings

Shira Nayman, the author of Awake in the Dark, plumbs the secrets of World War II Germany to craft haunting present-day tales… More »

Reading and Writing

Novelist and critic Francine Prose talks about creativity, literary craftsmanship, and her new book, Reading Like a Writer.… More »

Sentence by Sentence

Short story writer Amy Hempel talks about forensics, seeing eye dogs, and her new Collected Stories… More »

Zadie, Take Three

The author of White Teeth and The Autograph Man talks about her new comedy of manners-cum-campus novel and the pitfalls of literary celebrity.… More »

The Art of the Unconscious

Joyce Carol Oates talks about modern science, the writing life, and "*BD* 11 1 86," her short story in the fiction issue… More »

Character Is Action

Margot Livesey talks about her new novel, Banishing Verona, and her commitment to writing literary page-turners… More »

Faraway Voices

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler talks about tapping into different points of view and writing "from the place where you dream"… More »

Fast Times at King William's High

A talk with the author of The Rotters' Club, a darkly humorous story of coming-of-age in 1970s Birmingham, England… More »

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