Today, I’m talking to Andrew Ridker, author of his upcoming third novel, Everything Must Go, which will be released next year. We’ll be discussing voice and how a writer might retain one’s voice while crossing into a new genre. This seems a particularly tricky issue, because different genres often demand different kinds of voices, but of course as a writer still wants their work to sound like themselves.
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Andrew Ridker is the author of the novels Hope and The Altruists. His third novel, Everything Must Go, is forthcoming from Viking. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Le Monde, Bookforum, Guernica, Lit Hub, and on his Substack newsletter, Half Sour. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Andrew is the founder of the Prospect Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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