an interview with rececca mcclanahan

from "The Writer's Chronicle"

"The more attention we pay— "pay" suggesting that it will cost us something— the more complex and extraordinary those designs become."

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a conversation with rebecca mcclanahan

from "the Kenyon Review"

"I love writing in multiple genres. It's like cross-training. Genre-crossing exercises our writing muscles in different ways. "

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On Voice Prints, Ghost Thoughts, and Plates Set Spinning

from "River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative"

"Opening up--at least the way that phrase is often used in writing workshops--is not all it's cracked up to be. People on Oprah and other talk shows open up all the time; perhaps they even find their true voices. But that doesn't mean they've created an artful text. And creating an artful text is what we're trying to do."

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