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Editorial: On Social Fiction, Stories, and the 2024 Special Issue of The AutoEthnographer

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·February 11, 2024·11 min read
Writing fiction allows me to document reality and to reimagine it, just as we can always reimagine ourselves. And that is why we need stories.
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A Conversation with Patricia Leavy about Writing Fiction During the Pandemic and Her New Novel, The Location Shoot

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·September 10, 2023·9 min read
This is a conversation with Patricia Leavy about writing fiction during the pandemic and her new novel, The Location Shoot.
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Hollyland: Writing Fiction to Celebrate the Arts

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·February 13, 2023·5 min read
In the following interview with award-winning author, Patricia Leavy, we discuss writing fiction and her new novel Hollyland.
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What Is Social Fiction? Talking Re/Invention with Patricia Leavy

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·October 24, 2022·10 min read
"In our latest chat, Patricia Leavy discusses the evolution of the self-coined social fiction genre and offers a sneak peek at her latest publication, Film Blue."
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Celestial Bodies: Writing Fiction about Love, Trauma, and Healing

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·September 2, 2022·8 min read
"Although I never planned it, I wrote a series of novels, Celestial Bodies, that have pierced my heart in a way nothing else ever has, changing me as a writer and as a person."
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·July 18, 2022·14 min read
"In my interview with award-winning author Patricia Leavy on literary research, we also discuss her evolution from academic to novelist, her genre of "social fiction," and her latest novels series, Celestial Bodies."
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