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On the finalists for the 43rd National Book Award for Best Collection of Short Fiction in English.
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On the four finalists for the 43rd National Book Award for Best Collection of Short Fiction in Filipino.
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On the five finalists for the 43rd National Book Award for Best Novel in English
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On the five finalists for the 43rd National Book Award for Best Novel in Filipino.
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In the next installment of his series on novel writing, Edgar Calabia Samar examines Patricia Grace’s Potiki and its lessons on thresholds, resistance, and passages of loss.
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In another essay by Edgar Calabia Samar, he shows what Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo teaches us about thresholds, and why that is important in dreaming our own novels.
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In this essay by Edgar Calabia Samar, he shows how Eka Kurniawan’s 'Beauty Is a Wound' teaches us to dream at multiple scales simultaneously, and why that is important in writing.
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How reading novels, beginning with Yuko Tsushima's 'Territory of Light', reshapes the writer's consciousness.
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Edgar Calabia Samar looks back at what it was like to write 'Teorya ng Unang Panahon.'
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Edgar Calabia Samar talks about writing his second novel, Sa Kasunod ng 909, which is getting a new edition by Ateneo University Press this 2025.
When I sat down to write Sa Kasunod ng 909-and by "sat down" I mean that exact moment when evasion became impossible, when the five years of carrying Aaron's death with me had accumulated into a pressure that could no ...
Edgar Calabia Samar talks about writing his first novel, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, which is getting a new edition by Ateneo University Press this 2025.
There is a theory of knowledge that says we know a thing by destroying it, that understanding requires dissection, and Daniel, in my first novel Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, learns this theory first as a child taking apart his uncle's gift- ...
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