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IVY POCHODA

Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley and Visitation Street. Wonder Valley won The Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award, as well as the Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine in France. Visitation Street received the Page America Prize in France and was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Ivy’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Vogue. Her first novel, The Art of Disappearing, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2009. For many years she was a world ranked squash player. She teaches creative writing at the Lamp Arts Studio in Skid Row. Ivy grew up in Brooklyn, New York and currently lives in West Adams, Los Angeles.
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Closing the Story on My Own Terms: An Interview with Alex Segura

Closing the Story on My Own Terms: An Interview with Alex Segura

Ivy Pochoda interviews Alex Segura about “Miami Midnight” and the entire Pete Fernandez PI series.

Realistic, If Not Real

Realistic, If Not Real

Ivy Pochoda interviews writer Sebastian Rotella about his new novel, “Rip Crew.”

A Deeper Pull of Blood: An Interview with Lee Clay Johnson

A Deeper Pull of Blood: An Interview with Lee Clay Johnson

Lee Clay Johnson talks to Ivy Pochoda about his new book, "Nitro Mountain."

The Mask and the Mask Slipping

The Mask and the Mask Slipping

An interview with Megan Abbott.

The Canvas Is Limitless

The Canvas Is Limitless

Ivy Pochoda interviews Alafair Burke.

We Create a Lot of Widows

We Create a Lot of Widows

One of the reasons I say, “Get the story down first,” is because it’s the last thing I’m interested in, so I just lay it down like a base coat of paint.

Marriage, Bennington Style: Ivy Pochoda on Susan Scarf Merrell’s “Shirley”

Marriage, Bennington Style: Ivy Pochoda on Susan Scarf Merrell’s “Shirley”

Susan Scarf Merrell's "Shirley" is neither a tribute nor a derivation.

On How to Take a Swing: "Good Prose" by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd

On How to Take a Swing: "Good Prose" by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd

In perfecting her backhand, Ivy Pochoda comes up with a way to write a new novel.

An Elaborate Lie: David Samuel Levinson’s Literary Hall of Mirrors

An Elaborate Lie: David Samuel Levinson’s Literary Hall of Mirrors

A complex and convoluted web of literary espionage, petty crime, gun violence, and revenge by David Samuel Levinson.

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