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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Day 4: Layers of Interiority with Rebecca Makkai
Description: Character interiority in prose is one of the most misused and misunderstood writing tools, but without it your story will go nowhere. Rebecca Makkai helps us understand why our prose needs interiority and how to do it, going beyond the surface level.For a list of my fave craft books and the most recent works by our guests, go to our Bookshop page.Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the short story collection, Music for Wartime, and the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, The Borrower, and her new novel coming out in Feb...