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donaldmengay
May 10, 20233 min read
Race in The Lede, Part 1
The Lede is based on several assumptions linked to race. One of the most fundamental is that the US has never been a real democracy, and...
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donaldmengay
Apr 19, 20233 min read
Why the Literary References in The Lede, Including a Character Named Romeo?
One of my objections to contemporary literature on the market today, including fiction, is that it largely overlooks the literary...
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donaldmengay
Mar 28, 20233 min read
Why Choose a Dog for the Narrator, and How I Came up with the Character of Molly
In the 1990s, at the same time I was sharing work with the poet, Lynn McGee, I was teaching linked courses with a professor in the...
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donaldmengay
Mar 24, 20232 min read
How I Got the Idea for The Lede and Why It Took so Long to Write
The process took decades really. In a sense I began conceiving the story in the early 1990s. In the '80s I'd studied creative writing in...
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