I have a tendency to weave poetry into my novels. While Hear the Screams of the Butterfly is my first published novel, I have two novel manuscripts in which poetry is a central aspect of the story, and another in which I weave in theater, using play structure (I also do this in a minor way in HSB. Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? similarly uses pla…
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