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Episode 47: Writer pens novella on break from writing novel: Scott Alexander Hess and the story of Skyscraper

Welcome to this special episode of Behind the Prose. Special, because I bet you didn’t think it was coming! More special, because it features former guest, literary historical fiction writer and fellow New School Creative Writing MFA Grad Scott Alexander Hess. This time, I talk

Episode 26: How to write literary fiction with author Scott Alexander Hess

In this meta-writing hour, author and fellow New School alum Scott Alexander Hess, dissects his use and balance of language to create scene and character in his latest book, a historical novel, The Butcher’s Son (a literary fiction hell-of-a-work if I do say so mahself.) The author of