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Larry Woiwode

Larry Woiwode is the Poet Laureate of North Dakota, and the author of five novels and two books of stories.

Finding Your Voice

Finding Your Voice

How one writer discovered his when he stopped looking for it and learned instead to listen

by Larry Woiwode | Monday, June 03, 2019
Into the Quaking Mirror

Into the Quaking Mirror

An excerpt from our forthcoming web series, “How to Write a Novel”

by Larry Woiwode | Monday, June 04, 2018
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Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace

A huge, cinematic narrative

by Larry Woiwode | Monday, February 08, 2016

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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