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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on the essay “Futurity”
Description: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich discusses the first pages of their essay “Futurity” which appeared in the 2022 Best American Essays. We talk about their splintered approach to the essay during a splintered time, how they bypassed the usual expectations of structure and made their process physical (hint: it involved little pieces of paper) with the help of Jane Allison’s beloved craft book Meander, Spiral, Explode, and issues of audience and representation.Marzano-Lesnevich’s full essay can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying Alex’s book, The Fact of a Body, on Bookshop.Click...