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Keith Scribner’s fourth novel, Old Newgate Road, will be released by Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House) on January 8, 2019. His three previous novels are The Oregon Experiment, Miracle Girl, and The GoodLife, which was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Daily Beast, TriQuarterly, American Short Fiction, Quarterly West, The North Atlantic Review, the San Jose Mercury News, the Baltimore Sun, and the anthologies Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton) and Sudden Stories: The MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction. He received both Pushcart and O’Henry Prize Honorable Mentions for his short story, “Paradise in a Cup” ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Keith Scribner I find that a writing discipline, a regular and strict routine, is the best practice for fending off writer's block. If I show up at my desk everyday,…moreI find that a writing discipline, a regular and strict routine, is the best practice for fending off writer's block. If I show up at my desk everyday, preferably at the same time, my body and unconscious and imagination will come to recognize the signal to get cracking. When I'm in the middle of writing a novel, a daily word count is really useful. If I can't get up from my desk until I've written 500 words, and I have to leave for work in 10 minutes but I've put down only 300 words, it's amazing how quickly the remaining 200 will come. I might throw out most of them the next day, but almost always there'll be a surprising image or scrap of dialogue or even one good word that I wouldn't have come up with had I quit before hitting my goal.(less)

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Keith Scribner Nabokov writes that great fiction affords him "aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with the other states of being …moreNabokov writes that great fiction affords him "aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with the other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm." It's really a privilege to spend a good portion of my days engaged with art and creating art, doing my best to live a life where "curiosity, tenderness, kindness [and] ecstasy" are "the norm."(less)

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	The Oregon Experiment 3.12 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old Newgate Road 3.53 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The GoodLife 3.32 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miracle Girl 2.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The GoodLife by Keith Scribner (1999-10-11) by Keith Scribner (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars