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For National Book Award winner Alice McDermott, being a writer is a lot like being a believer. You get used to uncertainty, and become comfortable living in the dark.
On this episode McDermott, a frequent Commonweal contributor, shares a career’s worth of insights on the art of fiction with managing editor Katie Daniels.
She also recounts the moment when she realized she would be a writer, and discusses what a lifetime of working with words has taught her.
For further reading:
· Things, Alice McDermott
· Confessions of a Reluctant Catholic, Alice McDermott
· Nothing to be Done, Mollie Wilson O’Reilly
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For National Book Award winner Alice McDermott, being a writer is a lot like being a believer. You get used to uncertainty, and become comfortable living in the dark.
On this episode McDermott, a frequent Commonweal contributor, shares a career’s worth of insights on the art of fiction with managing editor Katie Daniels.
She also recounts the moment when she realized she would be a writer, and discusses what a lifetime of working with words has taught her.
For further reading:
· Things, Alice McDermott
· Confessions of a Reluctant Catholic, Alice McDermott
· Nothing to be Done, Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

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