Vanessa Veselka returns to Between the Covers, eight years after her first appearance, to discuss her new novel The Great Offshore Grounds. Longlisted for this year’s National Book Award in…
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Vanessa Veselka : Zazen
…of Zazen. Today’s guest is Portland writer and debut novelist Vanessa Veselka. Vanessa’s work has appeared in Tin House, the Atlantic, BUST, Bitch Magazine, and Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll, among…
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Lidia Yuknavitch : The Small Backs of Children
…like a literary banshee seeking a body. Fast, visceral, The Small Backs of Children is a gunshot meditation on art and violence and I couldn’t put it down.”—Vanessa Veselka Share…
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The Peripheral Unknown: An Interview With Vanessa Blakeslee
In Vanessa Blakeslee’s debut novel, Juventud, lost love and family secrets are set against the backdrop of sociopolitical upheaval. The story follows Mercedes Martinez from the dangerous activist meetings of…
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Issue #53: Portland/Brooklyn
…and poetry are from emerging writers—like Ben Lerner and Vanessa Veselka—as well as established ones—like Ursula K. Le Guin and Hannah Tinti. Jon Raymond delves into Occupy Portland and Charles…
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Fuck ’90s Nostalgia
…said the only honest thing I could: I want you to know that I meant every word. Vanessa Veselka is the author of the novel Zazen, with short stories and…
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Resisting Symmetry: An Interview with Akhil Sharma
…person, Sharma is open, questioning, and incisive. We sat at Veselka in the East Village and discussed his novels, the lengthy process of writing Family Life, and how its title’s…
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Hoofbeats on the Page
…one another, this world and our place in it, from the proximity of a horse. Vanessa Blakeslee‘s debut short story collection, Train Shots, is forthcoming from Burrow Press in winter…
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Underdog Narratives: An Interview with Davy Rothbart
…half that all those narrative structures were hashed out with some really talented editors, Vanessa Roworth and Mary Manhardt. They are documentary editors who have been doing this for a…
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The Perpetual Muse
…I am writing about him now. Vanessa Blakeslee’s debut short story collection, Train Shots, is forthcoming from Burrow Press in winter 2014. Her writing has appeared in The Southern Review,…
Read MoreI’m a Fan
…an ass out of myself in front of writers I admire. There is the time I offered my compliments in a strong whiskey breath to Vanessa Place; the time I…
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Resolve Yourself
…Vanessa Vaselka (Zazen): Before any Internet I will write for two hours each morning (with ear plugs) then go outside. Come back and do another half an hour. Write half…
Read MoreDavid James Poissant on The Ecstatic
…skip the 2002 recording with Vanessa Williams and go for the original 1987 Broadway cast recording. Listen, and the first thing you’ll notice is that the people sound like real…
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