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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Amina Gautier on "Lost and Found" from her collection The Loss of All Things
Description: First pages are impossible… so we’re hearing from authors about how they got them right. In this episode, Amina Gautier discusses the first pages of “Lost and Found,” the first story in her collection The Loss of All Lost Things. She explains how the story prepares the reader thematically and stylistically for the stories that follow, how she manipulates voice, avoids graphic representations of abuse and violence, and how she has produced a record-number of published short stories (hint: it has to do with working on many stories at once).Gautier’s first pages can be foun...