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Meet NUNUM's contributor: Alaina Hammond

11/28/2025

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Interview with Alaina Hammond​

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What was the first book you remember picking up and reading by yourself?
The Little Engine That Could.

What writer(s) or which book(s) influenced your decision to become a writer?

To be a writer in general, none. Or rather, too many to name. To be a playwright specifically, not Shakespeare but Sartre. I read No Exit at 14, and I felt deep envy. 
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Meet NUNUM's Contributor: Michael Murphy

11/16/2025

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Interview with Michael Murphy

What was the first book you remember picking and reading by yourself?

Dr. Suess’s Sneetches and Other Stories when I was 6 or 7. As a child, it became a field guide for deciphering human nature, and remains one of the most influential books on my shelf. My first bit of semiserious, self-selected reading came later, at about 11, when I sought out and read The Hobbit.
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What writer(s) or which book(s) influenced your decision to become a writer?
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Meet NUNUM's Contributor: Koren Zailckas

11/7/2025

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Interview with ​Koren Zailckas

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What was the first book you remember picking and reading by yourself?

I’m not sure it was the very first book I picked out and read on my own, but I discovered In Watermelon Sugar on my parents’ bookshelf when I was still quite young. It had been a gift to my father from my favorite second cousin, so reading it felt a bit like receiving a message from beyond the grave. And even though the subject matter was definitely not ​meant for children—full of sex, violence, and surrealism—the stripped-down language made it strangely accessible.
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Meet NUNUM's Contributor: Joshua Duncan

10/25/2025

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Interview with ​Joshua Duncan

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What was the first book you remember picking and reading yourself?
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When I was a kid I loved coffee table size picture books of art, nature and mythology themes. But the first book series I remember falling in love with was Clive Barker's Abarat series. His paintings pulled me in and I stayed for his poetic and direct style of writing.
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Meet NUNUM's Contributor: Catherine Hobbs

10/12/2025

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Interview with ​Catherine Hobbs

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Can you tell us about a book that has been important to you?
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One of the books that really cut through the fog was the 1945 novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart. I discovered a remaindered copy in the back of a downtown bookstore I worked in as a student. The prose has muscle but also a lush spareness. It has stayed with me. Elizabeth Smart may also lie behind the character of Christine.
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