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The Art of Fiction: Outline Your Novel, or Don’t…Or, Yeah, Maybe

March 26, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

In class, the subject always comes up: should you outline your story, or not? That is, should you make a road map for your novel,

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Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Pico Iyer

An Interview With Pico Iyer

March 19, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

This is an interview with memoirist and travel author Pico Iyer, about his book Sun After Dark. It is about traveling and empathy–what does it mean to

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Gracias, México, for Saving My Salvadoran Soul

February 8, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Once my Uncle Paco–the pain-in-the-ass Salvadoran revolutionary in exile in Mexico–saw how much books meant to me, he backed off. After I shook the novel

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My Time In Iowa: A Final Reflection on Racism in Higher Education

October 26, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

After the last few articles on my time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, I offer this reflection regarding MFA programs in creative writing, their ongoing

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My Time at Iowa, Part 1

October 18, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

In 1996, when we moved to Iowa, we had three kids in tow. Michelle and I had both resigned from decent paying jobs as community

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