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John McElwee

About

John McElwee works in book-to-film development in New York. He last wrote for the Oxford American about the Blue Monday Shad Fry in eastern North Carolina.

Articles

Blue Monday

By John McElwee

AN INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT MCCLANAHAN

An interview with Scott McClanahan: "I don’t feel like writing is therapy—ever. And I don’t think any redemption has come with the completion of the book. This writing stuff has actually helped me to...

By John McElwee

UNSETTLE GENRE

A conversation with Forrest Gander. Love is sacred to Gander, as is longing. Vulnerability, landscape, poetry, pain—these draw his characters, and readers, to the edge of the void. His...

By John McElwee