The Fail Safe podcast

Episode 11: Kelly Link

23.9.2020

The Fail Safe

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53:43

Host Rachel Yoder talks with Kelly Link about the gifts of interesting failures, how imagining really bad stories can actually help your writing, and how she successfully blazed her own path all the way to a Pulitzer nom as a slipstream writer. Recorded live at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

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