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An Interview with Author Jess Walter

I constantly revise and rewrite. My books have taken as long as fifteen years to write, but because I’m always working on several things at once, I’ve managed to publish a novel every three years or so.

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The Art of Combat — An Interview with Fight Choreographer Tom Dewey

I did Macbeth in High School. The fights were wildly unsafe, the choreographer was an Aikido Sensei who didn’t care if his actors were bleeding as long as there weren’t any broken bones. But nonetheless, I loved it.

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Let’s Talk Twain

According to the Associated Press, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the fourth most banned book in the United States. Book-It doesn’t shy away from banned books. Our Danger: Books! series tours a collection of the ever-growing number of banned or challenged books to middle and high schools each year.

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An Interview with Adapter Judd Parkin

Doing “Huck” enables me to work on material I’d never in a million years be able to make into today’s film market—I doubt even Steven Spielberg could get financing for a film version of “Huck”.

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An Interview with Anna (Emily Grogan)

Anna has a soul (like we all have) that is tugging at her and causing her to feel pulled to a deeper life filled with real love, poetry, and truth. Her husband is kind but he doesn’t see her for who she is. She struggles with depression and anger at the life she is obliged to lead.

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