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Literature of Desire

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

One of the compliments that my fiction writing sometimes receives is the natural sounding dialogue. While any writer will swoon over even the slightest compliment, when someone praises my dialogue, I can’t help but think of that Dolly Parton line, … Continue reading →

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Memoir, Murder, and Epiphany

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Fred Bubbers

Three summers ago, I was Elizabeth Benedict’s student at the New York State Summer Writer’s Institute at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. At her evening reading that year, she chose a then unpublished personal essay about the murder of her … Continue reading →