Episode 3: Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”

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Episode 3: Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”

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Jun 20, 2007

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In this podcast, recorded on 6/19/07 at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival Elevenses novelist and poet Jim Heynen discusses the relationship between content and form. Heynen advises writers to revisit thematic "obsessions" and to attempt "re-exploring the

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Jun 20, 2007

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Episode 3: Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”

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