In this week’s show, John talks with Jessie Red Marshall about her extraordinary short story collection, Women! In! Peril! The topics discussed include how story collections are like mixtapes, how thematic unity occurs brilliantly by accident, and how the interesting questions to ask ourselves in writing fiction is often what about ourselves, as writers, is problematic to ourselves.

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Join Jared Silvia and other members of Energy Wheel in this upcoming writer’s retreat (May 2-5) at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

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