Author: Mary Akers
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Clifford Garstang Interviews Me at Perpetual Folly
Interview with Mary Akers, author of Bones of an Inland Sea My friend Mary Akers has a new book out, Bones of an Inland Sea (Press 53, 2013). I plan to give you my own reaction to this wonderful book in a day or two, but for now let me share with you this conversation I…
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Interview with Robert Boswell
Mary Akers: Hi, Robert. Thanks for letting us publish your wonderful (serialized) story American Epiphany and for agreeing to talk with me about your new novel TUMBLEDOWN, which I loved. This book is satisfying on so many levels: art, craft, story, character, movement, and most interesting of all, its narrative point of view. Could you…
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Interview with Behlor Santi | Rkvry Quarterly Literary Journal
Interview with Behlor Santi | Rkvry Quarterly Literary Journal. Mary Akers: Behlor, I loved your piece, “After Philip Marries Mildred.” And I’d like to talk today a little bit about the writing process, if we could. When I was a potter, there were lots of discussions in the pottery community that centered around the simple…
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Press 53 Gathering of Writers
Last Saturday, I had the distinct pleasure of leading a workshop in Winston-Salem on HOW TO HAUNT YOUR READER for the Press 53 Gathering of Writers. What a wonderful group of engaged and engaging attendees and faculty! I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it for people who might be interested in being a part…
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Floyd Library Reading
The appearance at my home town library last Thursday was wonderful! It was my first appearance for the book and I was very nervous, but it turns out I needn’t have worried. We filled the room (43 attendees!) with a supportive and interested group and I had the chance to reconnect with former teachers, childhood…
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On Animals
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their…
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Barrett Review
So very thrilled to have a book blurb from one of my favorite authors! “In Mary Akers’ stories, as complexly intertwined as the branches of a coral reef, her passionate characters engage both each other and a richly detailed, vital physical world. An impressive achievement.” –Andrea Barrett, author of Archangel and Ship Fever, winner of the National…
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Tools ‹ Mary Akers — WordPress
Tools ‹ Mary Akers — WordPress.
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