The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
When I see photographs of epic sunsets, athletes performing physics-defying maneuvers, celestial phenomena, or wild animals staring benevolently into a camera lens, I often think two contradictory...
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Nell Zink’s debut novel, The Wallcreeper, offers a dark coming-of-age story of a married woman not all that dissimilar from Zink herself. Zink has lived a global lifestyle, picking up and moving to...
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For the New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz profiles Nell Zink, touching on her love for birds, her complicated relationship with the publishing industry, and her “improbable literary fame.”Related Posts:Truly,...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #226: Benjamin Nugent
Brad Watson, one of my professors at the University of Wyoming, used to tell me to think of a story as a musical composition, wherein each movement contributes to the effect of the whole—to try and...
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