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How Barbara Kingsolver gets past the fear of starting a new book
Since 1993, every book by Barbara Kingsolver has made The New York Times bestseller list. Her last novel, “Demon Copperhead,” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her latest, “Partita,” the story of a Tennessee piano teacher, is the book Kingsolver says she’s been waiting her whole life to write.
00:00 Intro
01:26 Book No. 19: Does It Ever Get Easier?
02:25 Digging for Gold: Throwing Out 100 Pages
04:36 Meet Partita's Piano Teacher
06:27 The Substack Post That Sparked the Novel
09:27 How Do You Follow Demon Copperhead?
12:11 A Novel Told in Seven Days
14:32 Young Love vs. Mature Love
18:34…
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