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Topic: Writers on writing

Valerie Plame, Chris Pavone

Valerie Plame has one regret

Chris Pavone, Valerie Plame

Novels too real for memoir

Hannah Tennant-Moore
Adam Thirlwell, Gary Shteyngart (Macmillan/Eamon McCabe/Random House/Eamon McCabe)

"I do bad sex very well"

Gary Shteyngart
Meghan Daum (Macmillan/David Zaugh)

TMOT: Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum
Jenny Offill, Lydia Millet (Michael Lionstar/Ivory Orchid Photography)

Lydia Millet unloads

Jenny Offill, Lydia Millet
Adelle Waldman (Macmillan /Lou Rouse)

"I did New York all wrong"

Adelle Waldman
Joshua Ferris, Paolo Giordano (Hachette Book Group/Pietro Pesce/Salon)

Joshua Ferris
Philipp Meyer (photo courtesy of the author), Brian Hart (photo credit: Wyatt McSpadden)

Philipp Meyer
Laura Kasischke, Yannick Murphy (HarperCollins/Patrice Normand/Paige Hiller)

Of course I'm not a prostitute

Laura Kasischke, Yannick Murphy
Julia Fierro (Natalie Brasington)

Social media saved me

Julia Fierro
Ted Thompson (tedthompson.net/Carrie McClean)

"I sold my book for $25,000"

Ted Thompson
Bernice McFadden, Lauren Francis-Sharma (Akashic Books/Macmillan Publishers/Jackie Hicks)

Lauren Francis-Sharma
Bret Anthony Johnston (Nina Subin)

My failed PJ Harvey album

Paul Yoon
Lydia Davis (Theo Cote)

Lydia Davis: The Salon Q&A

Brendan Mathews
Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster/Deborah Feingold)

Alice Hoffman's writing tips

Alice Hoffman
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-3614069-students-in-a-lecture-1.php?st=b6094b5'>thelinke</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Time to talk about adjuncts

Becky Tuch
(AP/Henny Ray Abrams/Reuters/Joaquin Sarmiento/Knopf/Erin Patrice O'Brien)

My fictional fantasy

Aaron Gilbreath
Dani Shapiro (Kate Uhry)

Memoir is not autobiography!

Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro (Kate Uhry)

Self-doubt is your friend!

Jill Bialosky
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My past keeps me from writing

Cary Tennis
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

How do I start writing poems?

Cary Tennis
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Prachi Gupta
Jeffrey Eugenides and Denis Johnson

Jeffrey Eugenides