The Existential Crisis of Multiple Timelines
by 2019 Ivan Gold Fellow, Aube Rey Lescure A novelist considering multiple timelines faces an oft-repeated threat: the reader will pick their […]
Category: Posts by WROB Fellows
Courage and Rage
On Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted that four American freshmen Congresswomen should “go back” to the “broken and crime infested places from […]
Are we Doomed? The Risks of Writing about Family
“When a writer is born into a family, the family is doomed,” -Czesław Miłosz I write a lot about family, my father […]
Exploring the Definition of Home
Around the time I began my application to the Gish Jen Fellowship with the Writers’ Room of Boston, my Tía Monica sent […]
Dangerous Friends
There is a curious and not quite consciously planned pattern in my novel’s first draft—at three different stages in the book, the […]
Tips for the Traveling Writer
I’ve been away from the Room the last couple of weeks, traveling for my honeymoon. As we move from place to place, […]
What Kind of Fiction IS This?
The following is the reprise of a conversation between myself and my sister-in-law. Joanna resides in Portland, OR, home of Powell’s Books. […]
Reflecting on Baldwin
“To accept one’s past– one’s history– is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.” […]
Fable is the Form That Lets Us Look But Not Touch
Presently, fairy tales and fable are not just having a moment, as they tend to do from time to time, but an […]
Measuring Progress
Twenty-seven thousand, five hundred—that’s my estimate for how many words I’ve written six months into my time at the WROB and nearing […]