Dorothy Allison's Blog

• Smart Women and Publishing

  February 22, 2009

  • (This is an account of remarks I made at AWP in Chicago February 14th, 2009 (Valentine's Day) on the panel on Smart Women and publishing. As is so often the case, I did not actually deliver the talk I had prepared to deliver at AWP—though I drew from that talk in my remarks. I had to cut it by half and reorganize it when time ran short, so some of what I did will be lost forever, but some of it ...
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• Truth in Fiction

  December 2, 2007

  • I think a lot in terms of what I am missing in books that I want. And I am missing a story of redemption that I find believable. Lyrical, but believable. –Me, quoted on Salon.com, March 31st, 1998
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