![]() ![]() We had to change some ages and dates to get everything to sync up. Ben George at Little Brown was so meticulous. I wasn’t filling in gaps, but I could see where the next story was going and how it would fit. Once I started gaining some momentum in Iowa, I began to write more stories. ![]() I originally wrote the stories as individual pieces and through the process of editing, we adjusted different aspects to show an entire arc. They put together the pieces of the puzzle. Most of the through lines were hammered out by editors and people that I’ve had the great fortune of working with. What was it like to put all of them together to tell an overarching story? This book is unconventional in that each chapter can work as a stand-alone story. I imagine that if they had had the breaks that I had, they might have found their way to write something like this. We grew up rapping and sometimes writing some poetry, but none of us were very literary. I grew up with a lot of people who were artistic but didn’t necessarily have the outlet for it. It began to take shape around these four young men and their lives. ![]() When I was at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, I started to see an arc in these stories featuring a group of friends. What inspired you to write How Are You Going to Save Yourself? ![]()
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