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On Writing (and Rewriting) Illness
You don't usually get writing advice this specific and workable about a long, complicated manuscript. With Jesse Kornbluth, I lucked out.
 • Elizabeth Benedict
When a Novel Touches a Writer
What Leonard Gardner's FAT CITY meant to Denis Johnson, as we consider the new biography
 • Elizabeth Benedict
Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes Revisited--Again
Before I knew from high, low and middle brow, there was Radio City Music Hall.
 • Elizabeth Benedict
What Does Your Character WANT?
If you don't know what they want--big picture, scene-by-scene, and in the dialogue--you might need a tune up.
 • Elizabeth Benedict
2 Stories about Robert Redford & 1 w/ Paul Newman
One story in the books, one in my ear.
 • Elizabeth Benedict
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