Dear Writers, Happy 4th of July! This month, we’re thrilled to share a Q&A with Helen Schulman, whose novel, Lucky Dogs, was published in June. Years ago I took a fiction writing workshop with Helen at Columbia. She was wry, funny, warm and candid. There were several other women teaching in the MFA program at the time—including Jennifer Egan, Maureen Howard, Binnie Kirshenbaum, and Dani Shapiro. I was in awe of Helen because she was a successful novelist who periodically discussed parenting. One day, she described dropping off her daughter at preschool. She said she had stood at the classroom door, and fogged up the door’s window to get one last look. The detailed way she described the scene and the passion she brought to the telling flipped a switch in my brain: You could explode tiny, important moments and write about them.
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July 2023: Q&A with novelist Helen Schulman…
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Dear Writers, Happy 4th of July! This month, we’re thrilled to share a Q&A with Helen Schulman, whose novel, Lucky Dogs, was published in June. Years ago I took a fiction writing workshop with Helen at Columbia. She was wry, funny, warm and candid. There were several other women teaching in the MFA program at the time—including Jennifer Egan, Maureen Howard, Binnie Kirshenbaum, and Dani Shapiro. I was in awe of Helen because she was a successful novelist who periodically discussed parenting. One day, she described dropping off her daughter at preschool. She said she had stood at the classroom door, and fogged up the door’s window to get one last look. The detailed way she described the scene and the passion she brought to the telling flipped a switch in my brain: You could explode tiny, important moments and write about them.