Author: Lynn Sloan
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Lynn Sloan interviews Three Writers
For ABOUT WRITE, the Off Campus Writers’ online column, Lynn Sloan interviewed three writers who led the summer workshops on the craft of writing. For six years, Off Campus Writers’ Workshop has offered member-only summer workshops where writers read, discuss, and delve into a short story or essay. The purpose: to enjoy the piece’s impact…
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Lynn Sloan talks with author Jan English Leary
Lynn Sloan talked with author Jan English Leary about her new novel Town and Gown on its publication day, May 30. (Fomite Press.) Before a full house at Women & Children First Bookstore in Chicago, Lynn and Jan read sections of the novel, the entwined story of two young women in a small college town as…
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Lynn Sloan Midstream Interview on Hypertext
Lynn Sloan interviewed about Midstream and creativity for Hypertext Magazine. I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Patricia Ann McNair to discuss Midstream, my new novel, and creativity for Hypertext Magazine. Patty begins with how we met: “It was through her photography that I first became acquainted with Lynn Sloan, but it is…
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Lynn Sloan interviews Patricia Skalka, mystery writer: On Writing A Book Series
Lynn Sloan interviews Patricia Skalka, mystery novelist, for About Write, the craft column published by Off Campus Writers Workshop. The topic: “On Writing a Book Series: How’d She Do it?” In 2022, long-time OCWW member Patricia Skalka published Death Casts a Shadow (University of Wisconsin Press), the last of her Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries, a seven-book series that…
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Hypertext Magazine Presents
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Small Press Picks Review of MIDSTREAM
In her Small Press Picks review, Beth Castrodale writes that MIDSTREAM,by Lynn Sloan, is a “reflective, thought-provoking novel” and an “engaging story” She begins: “As we approach middle age, it’s not uncommon for us to take stock of our lives and feel disappointment–with the choices we’ve made (or haven’t been able to make) or with…
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New City Lit reviews MIDSTREAM
Natalia Nobel wrote: Dreams That Won’t Die: A Review of Lynn Sloan’s Midstream In Lynn Sloan’s compelling novel Midstream, we follow Chicago-based protagonist Polly Wainwright through a midlife crisis that involves her unfulfilled dream of becoming a documentary film director, the breakup of a relationship, and the serious illness of her closest friend Eugenia. Structured…
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MIDSTREAM’s playlist for largehearted boy
LargeHearted Boy invited me to write a playlist for MIDSTREAM for Book Notes. I chose to write about how Polly Wainwright, my character, connected to music. The era is 1974. Between the summer of 1974, when Midstream opens and Polly Wainwright enters a crowded corporate elevator and the year 1962 when her story begins, a revolution invaded…
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Evanston RoundTable Interview
Your cocktail-party description of Midstream: It’s the summer of ’74, Chicago. Polly Wainwright thinks she’s finally landed on a safe perch in a turbulent world – anti-war protests, noisy feminists, the old ways fraying when she finds that every decision she’s made is based on a lie. When you realized you wanted to be an author:…
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Review of MIDSTREAM
Unlike the turbulent 1970s she lives in, Polly Wainwright is determined to be calm, competent, and professional. She’s got a boyfriend making a name for himself as a war correspondent in Vietnam, close friends, and a steady (albeit boring) job in the Illustration Department at Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Chicago location. But once upon a time Polly…