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Soraya Palmer published her debut novel, The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts, a week before her former professor, Matthew Vollmer, published his sixth book, and first book-length essay: All of Us Together in the End. Both books, as the above title asserts, are about ghosts. To be more specific, they are also about mothers. Even more specifically: mothers who die before their time. And what happens next to everyone they love.
On a recent flight, I booted up my laptop as we passed through 10,000 feet to outline these interview questions for Steve Almond. After thirty years of teaching and eleven published books, Almond has lassoed his “struggles as a writer” and his thinking about writing into one knock-out book on craft.