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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: BA Shapiro on Metropolis
Description: BA Shapiro discusses the first pages of her latest novel, Metropolis. We learn about how she worked with six very different points of view, how she handled narrative distance, how she decided where to start and why, the power of questions, the necessity of playing with time, and her advice to writers about their own first pages: Get it wrong. Shaprio’s first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.Click here for the audio/video version of this interview.The ab...