Ep162 Language, Literature, and Discipline with V. N. Alexander

V. N. Alexander shares how her academic career has enrichedher fiction, why language itself fascinates her, and the role discipline plays in sustaining a creative practice.

About the Author V. N. Alexander has published threeliterary fiction novels— Smoking Hopes (recipient of Washington Prize for Fiction), Naked Singularity (a Dallas Observer's “Best of 2003” book), and Locus Amoenus (a Dayton Literary Peace Prize nominee). In addition to her literary credentials, Alexander is an authority on VladimirNabokov’s theory of butterfly mimicry, she is a 2020 Fulbright Scholar in Russia, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, and a former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities.

In this episode, V. N. reads from The Girlie Playhouse.

Book link: https://heresy-press.com/product/the-girlie-playhouse-by-v-n-alexander/

Author Site: https://vnalexander.com/the-girlie-playhouse/

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