MashReads Podcast: This might be the perfect story collection

One writer's creative process: "I really let the keys guide me."
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"I really let the keys guide me."

That's how Helen Oyeyemi describes the process of writing her story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours.


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This week on the MashReads Podcast, Helen Oyeyemi joins us in the studio to chat about What Is Not Your Is Not Yours (our MashReads book club selection for April). She also lets us in on her creative process. 

For more book news, follow MashReads on Facebook and Twitter. And don't forget we have a new MashReads book for May: Trespassing Across America by Ken Ilgunas. 

You can find more details about how to read it along with us here.

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MJ Franklin was an Assistant Editor at Mashable and a host of the MashReads Podcast.

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