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href="https://blog.librarything.com/2021/03/national-grammar-day-interview-with-martha-brockenbrough/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to National Grammar Day Interview with Martha Brockenbrough">National Grammar Day Interview with Martha Brockenbrough</a></h3> <div class="post-body"> <div style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; clear: right;"> <div id="attachment_10225" style="width: 250px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://blog.librarything.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/marthabrockenbrough.jpeg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10225" class="size-medium wp-image-10225" src="https://blog.librarything.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/marthabrockenbrough-240x300.jpeg" alt="author photo of martha brockenbrough" width="240" height="300" srcset="https://blog.librarything.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/marthabrockenbrough-240x300.jpeg 240w, https://blog.librarything.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/marthabrockenbrough.jpeg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10225" class="wp-caption-text"><i>Martha Brockenbrough (Photo by Emerald England)</i></p></div> </div> <p>March 4th is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grammar_Day" target="_blank">National Grammar Day.</a> Established by author <a href="http://martha-brockenbrough.squarespace.com/home" target="_blank">Martha Brockenbrough</a>, the day was designated as a holiday in 2008. To celebrate, Meg sat down (virtually) with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/brockenbroughmartha" target="_blank">Brockenbrough</a> to talk about grammar in our world today.</p> <p><strong>Let’s start with the basics: how do you define grammar and why do you think it’s important?</strong></p> <p>Oh, this could be a very long answer. Let me start with something fun: grammar and grimoire share an ancestor. A grimoire is a magician’s manual for invoking demons and you could say that grammar can often be the same. What they have in common is magic. There is the good magic that helps us say what we mean to say and understand what is meant by the author. And then there is the bad magic that uses grammar to exclude, humiliate, and subjugate. Grammar is understanding how our language works, how it has evolved, and what can be accomplished by respecting conventions and what can be accomplished by breaking them. The more we know, the more powerfully and humanely we can practice this wonderful art.</p> <p><strong>You established National Grammar Day in 2008 with the goal of making grammar fun and lively for your students. How has grammar, or the study of grammar, changed in the last thirteen years?</strong></p> <p>I’m no longer teaching high school students, although I have one at home. I think for some, the study of grammar has changed in some of the good ways that society has changed. We are better now at recognizing white supremacy and the marginalization of certain forms of English. Language has always been a political weapon. English follows a lot of Latin “rules” for this exact reason. Latin was viewed as a superior language, and we were clawing our way upward in modeling certain English rules—e.g. “don’t split infinitives”—on Latin, where an infinitive is a single word and can’t be split.</p> <div style="float: left; margin: 1em 1em 0 0; clear: right;"><img decoding="async" style="width: 125px;" src="https://blog.librarything.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/unpresidented.jpg" alt="cover of unpresidented" /></div> <p>In America, we just got rid of a president who was incredibly sloppy with language. When his subordinates tweeted under his name, they even copied his irregular spelling and capitalization. I’m being judgmental here. I called him sloppy. But as the parent of a child with dyslexia, I recognize that he might also have this very common learning disability. So my judgment might be unfair even as he played the role of a populist, and part of that role is rejecting the appearance of being conventionally educated. This was, I suppose, his evil genius. He could be born with a golden spoon in his mouth and convince people without his privilege that he understood them.</p> <p>Part of arming ourselves against future demagogues is, I think, in not using education and knowledge as a cudgel to beat anyone down, but rather, to insist that it is both a gift and a birthright for everyone. I believe in building windows and doors, not walls. If it were easy, we would have done this long ago. And maybe I wouldn’t be so judgmental about the disgraced, twice-impeached, former president’s language. But I do think that’s what we might all work toward.</p> <p><strong>A lot of our members are at home helping their kids or grandkids with school because of the pandemic. What do you hope adults will convey to young people about grammar?</strong></p> <p>The best way to learn how language works is to read a lot. When you read, you encounter a much wider vocabulary than you do when conversing, watching TV, or listening to the radio. You also internalize patterns of language that have met a certain threshold of excellence. Everyone ought to read like crazy, and most libraries are still making this possible.</p> <p>Meanwhile, I think we might do less conveying and more listening. I’m always learning new things about the evolving language from my kids. It was news to me that terminal punctuation on texts conveyed anger to them. To me, it meant I was being careful and consistent. All sorts of new vocabulary comes from young people, and it doesn’t hurt us to learn it and understand it. I do confess to taking delight in using things incorrectly, just to rile my kids a bit. But now it’s a running gag. They stan it. Or something like that.</p> <p>I still do convey certain things to my daughters, who are now 17 and 20. The language we use in public—on social media and in school—is a lot like the clothes we wear. There are expectations and conventions. There are also power dynamics. A person who is hiring people for a job has power over the applicants, and that’s why we scrutinize our resumes and dress strategically for interviews. That’s a different situation from hanging out with friends (wearing masks, staying six feet apart). Navigating the world is easier when you understand conventions, dynamics, and codes, some of which probably ought to dismantled, but that can be hard to do from the outside.</p> <p><strong>In addition to being a grammar champion, you write fiction and narrative nonfiction. How does your understanding of grammar impact your creative writing?</strong></p> <p>I’m reading a most wonderful book right now: <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/25271707" target="_blank">A Swim in the Pond in the Rain</a> by <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/saundersgeorge-1" target="_blank">George Saunders</a>, which is a close examination of Russian short stories and how he teaches them. Here we are, reading translations of work, and translating them again through the eyes of Saunders, who is a white man of a certain age with certain experiences. Look at what language can do. Look at what stories can do. They can cross continents. They can travel through time. They can be funneled through the filter of another language twice—and still mean something to the reader. I’m paraphrasing, but one thing Saunders says is that he tries to write sentences that make the reader want to read the next one.</p> <p>That is a very specific vision of how stories work. If you’ve ever studied storytelling, you no doubt know there are graphs that show us how stories work. That there are “beats.” Narrative structures. Big-picture things that suggest that the shape of the story is more important than its cellular structure.</p> <p>What Saunders is talking about, I think, is partly the power of grammar. When you encounter a sentence that is right for the story—the right words in the right order with the right rhythm for the emotional moment—you want to know what happens next. This is a way of tying the big picture elements to the very smallest, the way our bodies emerge from our unique double helixes of DNA.</p> <p>All of which is to say that when I am telling a story, I make the best use I can of every tool possible. Grammar—conventional, unconventional, character-specific—is vital.</p> <p><strong>Tell us about your home library.</strong></p> <p>I love books. I have many. Too many. It is badly organized, though it wasn’t always that way. It makes it hard to find specific things but easy to be surprised by treasure. It is a mix of books for young readers and books for grownups, mostly fiction for the former and nonfiction for the latter. On the project list this year are more built-in bookshelves, and we just secured some reclaimed fir for the purpose. I’m giddy with excitement.</p> <p><a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/26183278/book/197218380"> </a></p> <div style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; clear: right;"><img decoding="async" style="width: 125px;" src="https://blog.librarything.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/intothebloodred.jpg" alt="cover of unpresidented" /></div> <p><strong>Tell us what you’re reading right now.</strong></p> <p>I just finished <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/sedarisdavid" target="_blank">David Sedaris</a>’s essay collection, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/25102552" target="_blank">The Best of Me</a>. I’ve been reading him my entire adult life. I’ve seen him live. I’ve read some of these essays before, and this collection felt a bit like a reckoning about family, what is funny, and what fractures us. I am reading <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/8766095" target="_blank">A Question of Freedom</a> by <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/bettsrdwayne" target="_blank">Reginald Dwayne Betts</a>, which is his memoir about coming of age in prison. And then there’s the Saunders book. I don’t generally read so many books by men, but sometimes it happens. I just finished the page proofs of my next novel, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/26183278/book/197218380" target="_blank">Into the Bloodred Woods</a>, which is based on the idea that everything you’ve ever read in fairytales is a lie.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About Martha Brockenbrough:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/brockenbroughmartha" target="_blank">Martha Brockenbrough</a> is the author of two books for adults and numerous books for young readers, including YA fiction and nonfiction, picture books, and a forthcoming chapter book series. Her next book, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/26183278" target="_blank">Into the Bloodred Woods</a>, will be released by Scholastic in November. Visit <a href="http://martha-brockenbrough.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">her website</a> to learn more about her and her books.</p> </div> <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> <p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/author-interview/" rel="category tag">author interview</a>, <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/authors/" rel="category tag">authors</a>, <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/holiday/" rel="category tag">holiday</a></p> <div class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Meg Blakemore @<a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2021/03/national-grammar-day-interview-with-martha-brockenbrough/" title="Permanent Link to National Grammar Day Interview with Martha Brockenbrough">5:00 am</a></em> <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2021/03/national-grammar-day-interview-with-martha-brockenbrough/#comments">5 Comments »</a> </div> <div class="shareit"> <li> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/home?status=National+Grammar+Day+Interview+with+Martha+Brockenbrough+-+http://www.librarything.comhttps://blog.librarything.com/2021/03/national-grammar-day-interview-with-martha-brockenbrough/" target="_blank" ><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_mini-a.png" alt="Tweet about National Grammar Day Interview with Martha Brockenbrough" /></a> </li> <li class="facebook-share"> <a name="fb_share" type="icon" share_url="http://www.librarything.comhttps://blog.librarything.com/2021/03/national-grammar-day-interview-with-martha-brockenbrough/" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script> </li> </div> </div> <div class="post-10009 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-author-interview category-authors category-interview"> <h2 class="date-header">Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020</h2> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2020/09/nancypearl/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Author Interview: Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager on The Writer’s Library">Author Interview: Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager on The Writer’s Library</a></h3> <div class="post-body"> <div style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; clear: right;"><img decoding="async" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/a1/77/a177ac88f9a6b49596e75307667444341587343_v5.jpg" style="width: 200px;"></div> <p><em></p> <p> Tim interviewed Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager, authors of <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/24663093">The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives</a>. <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/pearlnancy">Nancy Pearl</a> is, of course, the Seattle librarian, author of numerous books, <a href="https://mcphee.com/pages/history-of-the-librarian-action-figure">action-figure model</a>, and regular contributor on NPR. <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/schwagerjeff">Jeff Schwager</a> is a writer, editor, producer, playwright—and book lover. </p> <p> If there is a “LibraryThing book,” <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/24663093">The Writer’s Library</a> is it! LibraryThing members may or may not be interested in a given book, but we are <em>always</em> interested in books! <em>The Writer’s Library</em> is, essentially, a whole book going deep on author’s reading history, personal libraries and recommendations. I <em>loved</em> it. I hope you enjoy the interview! </p> <p></em></p> <p style="margin-top: 2em;"> <strong>TIM: What sorts of books did you read as children?<br /></strong> </p> <p> <strong>NANCY:</strong> I grew up in a home that we’d now call dysfunctional, but to me, back when I was a kid, it was just not an easy place to be, so I spent all my time at my local public library – the Parkman branch of the Detroit Public Library system. Miss Frances Whitehead was the children’s librarian, my librarian, and she fed my insatiable need to escape through books. I read, when she met me at about age 8 or 9, only horse and dog books, but she soon expanded my reading into books like <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/3206242">The Hobbit</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/38380">Mary Poppins</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/1534">The Wind in the Willows</a>, all the <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/sutcliffrosemary">Rosemary Sutcliff</a> books, and all of the <a href="https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Newbery+Honor">Newbery Award</a> titles. Of course, I continued reading all the horse and dog books too. It was because Miss Whitehead saved me from total despair that I became a children’s librarian, because, at age 10, I wanted to do for other kids exactly what she did for me: gave me the world of books. </p> <p> <strong>JEFF:</strong> From an early age I remember loving mysteries. I read <a href="https://www.librarything.com/nseries/18128/Two-Minute-Mysteries">Two Minute Mysteries</a> and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/nseries/3090/Encyclopedia-Brown">Encyclopedia Brown</a>, followed by all of the <a href="https://www.librarything.com/nseries/36/Sherlock-Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> stories and Agatha Christie’s <a href="https://www.librarything.com/nseries/35/Hercule-Poirot">Hercule Poirot</a> books. </p> <p> <strong>TIM: Was there a book that made the turn for you into adult reading?</strong> </p> <p><div style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; clear: right;"><img decoding="async" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/lt-pics/pics/nancypearl.jpg" style="width: 200px;"></p> <div style="text-align: center; padding: .2em;">Nancy Pearl</div> </div> <p><strong>NANCY:</strong> The first book I ever checked out from the adult section of the library was <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/34878">Gone with the Wind</a>, and I loved it. Another adult novel I checked out early on was called <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/16916600">The Headland</a>, by <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/brinkcarolryrie">Carol Ryrie Brink</a>. I remember taking it from the bookshelf because I was familiar with the author, from having read <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/6159">Caddie Woodlawn</a> and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/1486867">Family Grandstand</a>, and all her other books. </p> <p> <strong>JEFF:</strong> For me it was a paperback of short stories by <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/fitzgeraldfscott">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a> called <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/87742">Babylon Revisited and Other Stories</a>. I started on a rainy afternoon in high school with the story “Winter Dreams,” which is a sort-of early version of <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/2964">The Great Gatsby</a> about idealized and therefore doomed first love. What hit me, other than the heroine, who was a composite of every girl I lusted after in high school, and the hero, who was almost as pathetic as I was, was the beauty of the writing, the amazing musical flow of the sentences. That’s still the thing I respond to most fervently in my reading. </p> <p> <strong>TIM: You’re both fine writers in different genres. Do you have any advice for other writers?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>NANCY:</strong> Whenever I’m asked this question, I’m reminded of what <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/gainesernestj">Ernest Gaines</a> once said in a talk at the <a href="https://www.librarything.com/venue/3007/Seattle-Public-Library-Central-Library">Seattle Public Library</a> when he was asked the same question: “I have eight words of advice: read read read read write write write write.” It’s hard for me to imagine how someone can be a great—or even good—writer without being a reader. And I think that comes through in the interviews in <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/24663093">The Writer’s Library</a>. I know when I wrote my first (and probably last) novel, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/19480338">George & Lizzie</a>, I knew exactly what kind of novel it would be, because I was writing it for myself and I knew what kind of books I loved. </p> <p> <strong>TIM: Can you tell me about your personal libraries? Are you collectors, hoarders, or something else?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>NANCY:</strong> I am not a collector, but there are books that I keep just because I loved them at one time. I have many novels that I read as a young teen (mostly purchased at library book sales), which I will probably never re-read, but that I can’t bear not to have in my personal library. My favorite writer from those years is <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/stolzmary">Mary Stolz</a>. She wrote books for both teens and younger children, but I only love the teen ones. I have re-read some of her teen novels and they actually hold up quite well. Of course they’re long out of print, but if you can find <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/1892629">In a Mirror</a><em> </em>or <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/2128708">Second Nature</a>, I’d highly recommend both of them. Other than those teen novels (other than Stolz I have books by <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/emeryanne-1">Anne Emery</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/jardinrosamonddu">Rosamund du Jardin</a>, and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/weberlenoramattingly">Lenora Mattingly Weber</a>), I’ve kept a lot of my favorite novels and a few nonfiction titles. </p> <p> <strong>JEFF:</strong> I am a collector and a hoarder–meaning I have some books I cherish and many, many more that I just can’t bear to part with because I might, just maybe, want to look at them someday. As a collector, I focus on specific authors I love, including <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/chekhovantonpavlovic">Chekhov</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/rothphilip">Philip Roth</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/johnsondenis">Denis Johnson</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/macdonaldross-1">Ross Macdonald</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/carverraymond">Raymond Carver</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/yatesrichard-1">Richard Yates</a>, and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/oharajohn-1">John O’Hara</a> (all dead white men), as well as modern signed first editions (a more diverse lot, including my favorite living writer, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/munroalice">Alice Munro</a>, who is a master of compression and manages to get the depth of a novel into each of her short stories), pulp paperbacks, old Random House plays, slipcased editions… the list goes on and on, as does my library, which has taken over my fairly large house like a monster from a ’50s sci-fi movie. </p> <p> <strong>TIM: I loved hearing authors talk about books as objects, such as Jonathan Lethem collecting books for their cover designers. Do you have books you treasure as objects per se?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>NANCY:</strong> No, not really – for me it’s always what the books say, what that means to me, rather than as a valuable object. </p> <p><div style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; clear: right;"><img decoding="async" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/lt-pics/pics/jeffschwager.png" style="width: 200px;"></p> <div style="text-align: center; padding: .2em;">Jeff Schwager</div> </div> <p><strong>JEFF:</strong> I love books with slipcases, like Folio Society and Limited Edition Club books, as well as clean old books, which have such a wonderful smell. I love beautiful dust jackets–the best ever is the one for the first edition of John O’Hara’s <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/38282">Appointment in Samarra</a>. I love deckle edged pages. I have some beautiful illustrated Limited Edition Club editions of <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/singerisaacbashevis">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a> books—<a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/85816">The Magician of Lublin</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/65734">Satan in Goray</a>, and some short stories–that evoke the shtetls of my ancestors, that I love. Of modern books, I love the design of <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/eggersdave">Dave Eggers</a>‘ McSweeney’s Books–check out <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/29665">Samuel Johnson is Indignant</a> by <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/davislydia-1">Lydia Davis</a> and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/4517498">Maps and Legends</a> by <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/chabonmichael">Michael Chabon</a>, to name two, which are such beautiful literary artifacts. </p> <p> <strong>TIM: How did you pick the authors you wanted to interview? Did you fight over who would get to do them?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>NANCY:</strong> We started out by each making a list of the authors we wanted to interview and discovered, to our relief, that there was some overlap (<a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/boyletc">T.C. Boyle</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/johnsoncharlesrichar">Charles Johnson</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/chabonmichael">Michael Chabon</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/erdrichlouise">Louise Erdrich</a>, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/tarttdonna">Donna Tartt</a>). Then we each had authors who we were passionate about but that the other person wasn’t as enthusiastic about. I won’t say it actually came to fisticuffs, but I believe that voices were raised in the ensuing discussions. And we ended with, I think, a wonderfully diverse collection of writers, so, as Ma says in <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/3962">Little House in the Big Woods</a>, “all’s well that ends well.” </p> <p> <strong>TIM: My favorite interview was with Laila Lalami, an author I have not read but will now. You probably can’t say which was your favorite, but how about one you loved?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>NANCY:</strong> For me, each interview is special in its own particularly lovely way. I think that’s because we didn’t have a list of questions that we asked each writer—we began each interview by me asking a general sort of question about reading as children, or growing up in a reading family, but after that, we let the interview basically go where the writer took it. I loved the interview with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/chabonmichael">Michael Chabon</a> and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/waldmanayelet">Ayelet Waldman</a> because we talked so much about children’s books. I loved the interview with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/urrealuisalberto">Luis Urrea</a> because of the way his childhood reading was determined by the circumstances of his parents’ marriage. I loved the interview with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/millermadeline-1">Madeline Miller</a> because she and I felt the same way about <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/updikejohn">John Updike</a>’s <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/74700">The Witches of Eastwick</a>. I loved the interview with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/eganjennifer">Jenny Egan</a> because of her story about reading <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/1507">Rebecca</a>. I loved the interview with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/towlesamor">Amor Towles</a> because he also read a series of mysteries in publication order. I loved the interview with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/hirshfieldjane">Jane Hirschfield</a> because I love poetry, which she talked about with such precision. I loved the interview with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/lalamilaila">Laila Lalami</a> because I learned so much about the experience of colonialism. I loved the interview with <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/banksrussell">Russell Banks</a> because of the story of his 4th grade teacher and Brazil. And so on. </p> <p> <strong>JEFF:</strong> I loved them all of course, but one that stands out was <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/boyletc">T.C. Boyle</a>, who lives in Montecito, down the street from Oprah Winfrey, in the first house Frank Lloyd Wright built in California. I was really eager to see his home, which was gorgeous, and to talk again to Tom (as he is casually known), whom I had first interviewed when I was a young journalistic pup thirty years ago. He is as funny as his funniest short stories, and also as thoughtful as his most serious novels, including my favorites, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/3145">World’s End</a> and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/3482">Drop City</a>. </p> <p> <strong>TIM: In her lovely foreword, <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/orleansusan">Susan Orlean</a> recounts how the dementia and death of her mother was, in a way, the death of a library. More literally, dismantling my parents’ library, which encoded so much of their lives, was a second loss. What will happen to your library—however defined—when you die? </strong> </p> <p> <strong>NANCY:</strong> I hope my daughters will look inside all the books and find the ones that are autographed and keep or sell those (especially a book of poetry by <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/spenderstephen">Stephen Spender</a> and a beat-up copy of <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/hugheslangston">Langston Hughes</a>’ <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/3564865">Montage of a Dream Deferred</a> both of which are signed to me personally). Other than that, I’m trying not to care too much about them. </p> <p> <strong>JEFF:</strong> I’m leaving mine to Nancy—she walks 5-8 miles a day while I obsess over MSNBC 24/7, so I’m sure she will outlive me! </p> <p> <strong>TIM: I could imagine a series of these books. Would you consider doing another? Anyone you wish you could interview?</strong> </p> <p> <strong>NANCY: </strong>I’d love to do another collection, so we could talk to more poets, more writers at the beginning of their careers, more science fiction/fantasy writers, more nonfiction writers. But one of the things that makes <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/24663093">The Writer’s Library</a> special, I think, is that we’re with the authors in person, mostly in their homes. I don’t want to do a series of Zoom interviews – I don’t think it would be the same. </p> <p> <strong>JEFF: </strong>There are so many writers I’d love to interview! If I could interview one living literary writer it would be <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/munroalice">Alice Munro</a>, but we were told last time she was retired and not doing any more interviews. Otherwise, more poets definitely, and writers in genres we didn’t get to this time, like mystery and sci-fi/fantasy writers and playwrights. Also, I love literate songwriters—especially <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/springsteenbruce">Bruce Springsteen</a>, whose <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/18169405">autobiography</a> was wonderful and who is so well read, and whose songs show the influence of his reading. Call us, Bruce! And the Obamas, whose memoirs are as thoughtful as they are. I can’t wait for his new book. If you’re reading this <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/obamabarack">Barack</a> and <a href="https://www.librarything.com/author/obamamichelle">Michelle</a>, let us know–we will go anywhere, anytime, anyplace to talk to you!</p> </div> <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> <p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/author-interview/" rel="category tag">author interview</a>, <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/authors/" rel="category tag">authors</a>, <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/interview/" rel="category tag">interview</a></p> <div class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Tim @<a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2020/09/nancypearl/" title="Permanent Link to Author Interview: Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager on The Writer’s Library">10:01 am</a></em> <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2020/09/nancypearl/#respond">0 Comments »</a> </div> <div class="shareit"> <li> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/home?status=Author+Interview%3A+Nancy+Pearl+and+Jeff+Schwager+on+The+Writer%27s+Library+-+http://www.librarything.comhttps://blog.librarything.com/2020/09/nancypearl/" target="_blank" ><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_mini-a.png" alt="Tweet about Author Interview: Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager on The Writer’s Library" /></a> </li> <li class="facebook-share"> <a name="fb_share" type="icon" share_url="http://www.librarything.comhttps://blog.librarything.com/2020/09/nancypearl/" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script> </li> </div> </div> <div class="post-5206 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-author-interview category-authors"> <h2 class="date-header">Friday, October 18th, 2013</h2> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-tom-standage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Interview with Tom Standage">Interview with Tom Standage</a></h3> <div class="post-body"> <p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/standagetom"><img decoding="async" class="omit" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" src="http://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/56/ba/56ba3089bf97f6d6374697a41514331414f6744.jpg" alt="" /></a>Some excerpts from our interview with <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/standagetom">Tom Standage</a>, which appeared in <a href="http://www.librarything.com/readmessage.php?msgID=38b118d5d74e399eb9d35d60d41b9810">October’s State of the Thing</a>.</p> <p>Tom is the digital editor of <em>The Economist</em> and the author of several works of popular history, including <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/49760">A History of the World in 6 Glasses</a> and <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/63517">The Victorian Internet</a>. Tom’s new book is <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/13772442">Writing on the Wall</a>, a history of social media, published this month by Bloomsbury.</p> <p><strong>Give us the nutshell version of <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/13772442">Writing on the Wall</a>, if you would, for those who haven’t yet had a chance to read it.</strong></p> <p>The basic idea is that social-media environments have existed for centuries, and don’t require digital technology to operate. I describe examples of the use of social media (essentially, media you get from other people) going back to Roman times. It turns out that these ancient social-media systems provoked many of the same arguments and questions that we have about social media today. So history can provide some valuable lessons.</p> <p><strong>How were the “social media environments” of earlier periods similar to those we’re familiar with today? How were they different?</strong></p> <p>They were similar in the sense that they were decentralized and created discussion or community as people passed stuff to each other, copied it, recommended it, and commented on it. This was done by distributing letters, pamphlets, poems on slips of paper, and so on. People collectively decided what was important and worth passing on, and what you passed on was also a means of self-expression. Centralized media only emerged in the 19th century with mass-circulation newspapers, followed later by radio and television. So today’s social-media environment is, in many ways, a return to the way things used to be. That said, the main difference is that digital social media is global, instant, and searchable. So the analogy is not perfect. But it is close enough to be interesting and informative.</p> <p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/13772442"><img decoding="async" style="border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/1408842068.01._SY200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" alt="" /></a><strong>What was the most surprising thing you learned as you researched for <em>Writing on the Wall</em>?</strong></p> <p>Probably the most remarkable thing I came across was the Roman wax tablet that looks exactly like an iPad—the size and proportions are the same. It was used as a notebook, to jot down thoughts before committing them to papyrus. There’s one in the Roman museum in Cologne, Germany, and I have a picture of it in my book. It’s a great example of what I try to do in my books, which is to see the past in the present, and the present in the past.</p> <p><strong>You include in the book a number of examples of criticisms of previous social media environments that bear very strong resemblances to criticisms we hear today. Do you have a couple of favorite examples of these?</strong></p> <p>My favorite example is the way coffeehouses were criticized in the late 1600s. They were the media-sharing platforms of their day, where people went to read and discuss the latest news and gossip. Critics thought this was just wasting time, and that coffeehouses were “enemies to diligence and industry”. But they turned out to be crucibles of innovation that spawned advances in science and commerce.</p> <p><b>For more on Tom’s work, thoughts on social media, and recent favorite reads, check out our <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/standagetom/interview">full interview</a>.</b></p> </div> <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> <p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/author-interview/" rel="category tag">author interview</a>, <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/authors/" rel="category tag">authors</a></p> <div class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Loranne @<a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-tom-standage/" title="Permanent Link to Interview with Tom Standage">10:51 am</a></em> <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-tom-standage/#respond">0 Comments »</a> </div> <div class="shareit"> <li> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/home?status=Interview+with+Tom+Standage+-+http://www.librarything.comhttps://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-tom-standage/" target="_blank" ><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_mini-a.png" alt="Tweet about Interview with Tom Standage" /></a> </li> <li class="facebook-share"> <a name="fb_share" type="icon" share_url="http://www.librarything.comhttps://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-tom-standage/" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script> </li> </div> </div> <div class="post-5193 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-author-interview category-authors"> <h2 class="date-header">Friday, October 18th, 2013</h2> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-patrick-ness/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Interview with Patrick Ness">Interview with Patrick Ness</a></h3> <div class="post-body"> <p><img decoding="async" class="omit" style="border-style: none ! important; margin: 10px; float: right;" src="http://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/8e/cd/8ecded1f30ea64d6374727841514331414f6744.jpg" alt="" />Some excerpts from our interview with <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/nesspatrick">Patrick Ness</a>, which appeared in the <a href="http://www.librarything.com/readmessage.php?msgID=38b118d5d74e399eb9d35d60d41b9810">October State of the Thing</a>.</p> <p>Patrick is the author of several books for young adults, including <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/5400850">The Knife of Never Letting Go</a> and the Carnegie Medal-winning <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/9116020">Monsters of Men</a> and <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/10838830">A Monster Calls</a>. His new book, <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/13423439">More Than This</a>, was published by Candlewick in September.</p> <p><strong>I don’t want to ask for a nutshell version of <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/13423439">More Than This</a>, since so much depends on the mysteries that the reader has the chance to unpack, but will you give us a sense of how the book begins, at least?</strong></p> <p>Well, the first line is “Here is the boy, drowning” and he does, unambiguously, die. So where does he wake up on the next page then? Don’t really want to say any more than that, really!</p> <p><strong>Was there a specific idea or incident that inspired the story?</strong></p> <p>I always wanted to write a book where someone wakes up and the world is empty. So the next question is why? And that opened up a whole realm of possibilities and other questions, which is what I find exciting. I also wanted to write a book about yearning, about yearning for more than just your own life, because I think that’s such a painful and poignant universal teenage experience. Then I just sort of went from there to see where the story would take me.</p> <p><strong>What’s your favorite line (or scene) from the book?</strong></p> <p>I don’t want people to turn to it first! But I’m really proud of the last line. To me, the whole book rests on it and it’s got everything I want the book to be about in it. But read the first 480 pages first, please.</p> <p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/13423439"><img decoding="async" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0763662585.01._SX140_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" /></a><strong>What do you think it is about dystopian writing that works so well for YA/teen audiences?</strong></p> <p>I’ve always thought it was because dystopias are about a world where society has suddenly collapsed, where the rules are arbitrary and unknowable, where people are divided into groups, and your friends are both beloved and duplicitous. In short, it’s high school. I don’t think teenagers look as dystopia as fiction; they see it as a pretty accurate description of what their current world feels like.</p> <p><b>When and where do you do most of your writing? Are there any particular writing habits or practices you’ve found useful?</b></p> <p>I work at home and in the <a href="http://www.librarything.com/venue/20955/The-London-Library">London Library</a>. And I do have a few habits—1000 words a day, working to goal rather than time, etc.—but it’s a really important thing that no one can tell you how to write; they can only tell you how <i>they</i> write and that’s an important difference. The things I do may be of no use to you at all, but that’s absolutely fine. As long as you get the writing in, you’re doing it right.</p> <p><b>For more on Patrick’s work, favorite books, and what we can expect to see from him next, check out our <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/nesspatrick/interview">full interview</a>.</b></p> </div> <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> <p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/author-interview/" rel="category tag">author interview</a>, <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/category/authors/" rel="category tag">authors</a></p> <div class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Loranne @<a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-patrick-ness/" title="Permanent Link to Interview with Patrick Ness">10:32 am</a></em> <a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-patrick-ness/#respond">0 Comments »</a> </div> <div class="shareit"> <li> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/home?status=Interview+with+Patrick+Ness+-+http://www.librarything.comhttps://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-patrick-ness/" target="_blank" ><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_mini-a.png" alt="Tweet about Interview with Patrick Ness" /></a> </li> <li class="facebook-share"> <a name="fb_share" type="icon" share_url="http://www.librarything.comhttps://blog.librarything.com/2013/10/interview-with-patrick-ness/" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script> </li> </div> </div> <div class="post-3313 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-author-interview category-authors category-state-of-the-thing"> <h2 class="date-header">Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012</h2> <h3 class="post-title"><a href="https://blog.librarything.com/2012/05/may-author-interviews/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to May Author Interviews!">May Author Interviews!</a></h3> <div class="post-body"> <p></a> This month’s State of the Thing, LibraryThing’s monthly newsletter of features, author interviews and various forms of bookish delight, is on its way to your inbox. You can also <a href="http://www.librarything.com/readmessage.php?msgID=2a9bc0cdda17b9e4d971dc00c6961d92">read it online</a>. It includes author interviews with Hilary Mantel, Naomi Novik, Jonathan Gottschall, and Melissa Coleman.</p> <p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/12104031"><img decoding="async" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/d6/2e/d62e7a8b2cf32425937427a6177434d414f4541.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" /></a>I talked to <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/mantelhilary">Hilary Mantel</a> about her new book <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/12104031">Bring Up the Bodies</a>, the sequel to <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/9209435">Wolf Hall</a>, published this month by Henry Holt. </p> <p><b>Originally, you’ve said, you planned just “one enormous book” on Thomas Cromwell, but now we’re looking at a trilogy. When did you realize first that his story needed two books, and now three?</b></p> <p>I think that fiction, even historical fiction, is inherently unpredictable. You know what the story is, but you don’t know until you tell it where its power is located, where<br /> you will place the focus and how you need to shape it. I did originally imagine there would be just one book, but as I began to tell the story of Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More, I realized that it needed to be played out properly, that it couldn’t be hurried: that it was, in fact, the climax of a book, not an episode in a book. At that point, I decided that <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/9209435">Wolf Hall</a> would end with More’s death, and the royal party heading for the house named in the title. With <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/12104031">Bring up the Bodies</a>, the process of discovery was virtually the same, though it still caught me unawares. I came to write the end of the Boleyns, and realized that I already had a book; the buildup to that tragedy is so stealthy, the climax so horrifying, that I thought the reader would want to pause, close the book, take a breath.</p> <p><p>So the whole project reshaped itself for a second time, and very swiftly; in each case, the process of realization took a split second; and the second after that, it seemed obvious. To some readers it might sound as if my method of work is very disorganized. I’d prefer to think of it as an organic, evolving process: sudden discoveries and sudden demands breeding changes of tactics. I like to gather my material, think for a long time, but make the business of writing itself as spontaneous and flexible as possible. If I can I like to take myself by surprise.</p> <p><b>What was it about Thomas Cromwell that initially drew you to him as a way to write about the Tudor period?</b></p> <p>It appealed to me because his character had never been explored properly in fiction or drama. Cromwell was the son of a blacksmith and brewer, and this stratified, hierarchical society, he rose to become the king’s right-hand man and eventually Earl of Essex; you have to ask, how did he do it? Luck? Calculation? Both, surely, but what combination of the two? And what drove him? When you worked for Henry VIII, the stakes were so high. One slip and you were dead. I wanted to try to work out what combination of ambition and idealism motivated Cromwell. In what ways was he typical of his time, and in what ways unique? And as I was asking myself, as I always do when I write I historical fiction, how did this man’s life feel, from the inside?</p> <p>When you stand in Cromwell’s shoes, familiar events are defamiliarised. The story, which is irresistible in itself, comes up fresh and new.</p> <p><b><a class="text" href="http://www.librarything.com/author/mantelhilary/interview">Read the rest of our interview with Hilary Mantel</a>.</b></p> <p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/noviknaomi"><img decoding="async" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/84/e9/84e95191449f76a637638754d674331414f6744.jpg" style="margin: 5px 10px 0px 5px; float: left;" /></a> I also talked to <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/noviknaomi">Naomi Novik</a>, the author of the fascinating <a href="http://www.librarything.com/series/Temeraire">Temeraire</a> fantasy series. The latest volume, <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11201185">Crucible of Gold</a>, was published in March by Del Rey. Some excerpts: </p> <p><b>On your website, you offer a few “deleted scenes” from the Temeraire books, and you note there “I tend to write fast and revise heavily, and I cut liberally.” Tell us a bit more about your writing process: when do you do most of your writing? Where? Do you compose in longhand, or use a computer?</b></p> <p>I have no rules other than that I tend to change my rules fairly often. Each book has worked differently. My life has changed quite a lot over the course of writing the series—I have a new baby now, so I write from 9:30 to 4:30 because that’s when I have child care. My natural state of writing is really more writing from 11 in the morning to 3 a.m.; that’s my intuitive style. I do generally like to work at a fairly fast pace—when it’s flowing I’m getting two to three thousand words a day. I still like to get the skeleton down and then polish it. My single biggest trick for when I need to focus and get productivity is to go somewhere where there isn’t internet, so I’ll go to a café with a laptop and just write there. It’s actually getting increasingly hard to avoid the internet, though. I don’t really write longhand unless I get stuck; if I get stuck, then what I do is grab a journal and start writing some longhand, and that loosens things up a bit. Once I’ve started, I like so much having the freedom to revise heavily and save different versions that I always really want to be on the computer.</p> <p><b>Anything you’d like to tell us about the next Temeraire volume (the eighth)? Have you selected a title yet? Any hint of where Laurence and Temeraire might be off to next?</b></p> <p>My working title for it is “Luck and Palaces,” and I suppose I can give a hint, which is that that is from a translation of poems by <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/szymborskawislawa">Wisława Szymborska</a>, and the line is about the city of Kyoto. So that’s my little hint. The other clue I will give is that it’s the year 1812.</p> <p><b><a class="text" href="http://www.librarything.com/author/noviknaomi/interview">Read the rest of our interview with Naomi Novik</a>.</b></p> <p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11782950"><img decoding="async" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/ab/4a/ab4a8db12de091d59354f495a77434d414f4541.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" /></a>I had the chance to talk with <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/gottschalljonathan">Jonathan Gottschall</a> about <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11782950">The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human</a>, published in April by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.</p> <p><b>If you can give us the nutshell version, what is it about stories (whether it be fiction, or drama, or televised sports, or dreams, or computer games) that makes us as humans so attracted to them, and gives them such a powerful hold over us?</b></p> <p><i>Homo sapiens</i> is this weird sort of primate that lives inside stories, and we don’t know why for certain. I cover several competing ideas in the book, but they all break down into two big categories. 1) We like stories because they have hidden evolutionary benefits. 2) The mind isn’t designed for story, it has a glitch that makes it vulnerable to story. In the latter view, fiction is like porn—a mere pleasure technology that we’ve invented to titillate the pleasure circuits of the brain. I argue that story addiction is mainly good for us: story is a whetstone for the mind, and it acts as a kind of social glue—helping to bind individuals together into functioning societies.</p> <p><b>It was an experience with a song that prompted you to write this book, as you note in the opening pages. Tell us about that moment, and do you see significant differences in the way humans are affected by stories in different media (print, song, video, &c.), or does the impact tend to be similar?</b></p> <p>One day, I was driving down the highway and happened to hear the country music artist Chuck Wicks singing “Stealing Cinderella”—a song about a little girl growing up to leave her father behind. Before I knew it, I was blind from tears, and I had to veer off on the road to get control of myself and to mourn the time—still more than a decade off—when my own little girls would fly the nest. I sat there on the side of the road feeling sheepish and wondering, “What just happened?” I wrote the book to try to answer that question. How can stories—the fake struggles of fake people—have such incredible power over us? Why are we storytelling animals?</p> <p>And yes, different forms of storytelling affect us in different ways. Most popular songs are stories set to music, and they evoke powerful emotion. The same goes for films. People respond so intensely and authentically to film, that when psychologists want to study an emotion, like sadness, they subject people to clips from tear-jerkers like “Old Yeller” or “Love Story”.</p> <p><b><a class="text" href="http://www.librarything.com/author/gottschalljonathan/interview">Read the rest of our interview with Jonathan Gottschall</a>.</b></p> <p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/colemanmelissa"><img decoding="async" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/2e/84/2e84f8950cf865f6375383841774331414f6744.jpg" style="margin: 5px 10px 0px 5px; float: left;" /></a> Last but not least, Lisa Carey interviewed <a href="http://www.librarything.com/author/colemanmelissa">Melissa Coleman</a> about her book <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/10767317">This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family’s Heartbreak</a>, now out in paperback.</p> <p><b>What made you decide to write this memoir? Was it something you always intended to write about?</b></p> <p>Somehow I managed to avoid writing, and talking much, about my childhood for many years, fearing, I think, that I was responsible for some of the tragic things that happened. However, with the birth of my children, the past began urging me to make peace. I also found myself wanting to celebrate the beauty and connection to nature in my childhood, and the amazing effort made by my father, Eliot Coleman, and others, to lay the foundations for today’s organic food revolution.</p> <p><b>How much research was involved to bring such rich detail to the parts that occurred before you were old enough to remember it? You have your mother’s journals. Did your parents help you otherwise in the process of telling this story?</b></p> <p>I began with my own scraps of memories, images from photos, and family stories, but I needed to do a lot of research to fill in the blanks. There was my mother’s journal, numerous news articles about us, books by the Nearings and others, and I tracked down and interviewed many of the apprentices and people who visited us during the 1970s. It was only with the help of all these people, especially my parents, that I was able to tell this story.</p> <p><b>Was this a difficult book to write? Or was it liberating?</b></p> <p>Both! It’s incredibly difficult to dig into painful events in the past, but also very rewarding to let them go and find the beauty beneath. The liberation that came was something like what comes from making compost. You put all these scraps of things into a pile and let them settle and soon enough they turn into black gold, as my father calls compost, the rich soil in which new life can grow.</p> <p><b><a class="text" href="http://www.librarything.com/author/colemanmelissa/interview">Read the rest of Lisa’s interview with Melissa Coleman</a>.</b></p> <hr> <p>Catch up on previous <a href="http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/State_of_the_Thing"><strong>State of the Thing newsletters.</strong></a></p> <p>If you don’t get State of the Thing, you can <a href="http://www.librarything.com/editprofile/account">add it in your email preferences</a>. 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