Richard Bausch is the author of numerous novels, including Playhouse, Thanksgiving Night, and Peace, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He has also published many story collections, including Something Is Out There and The Fate of Others (Knopf, 2025), which features six stories from Narrative, including the title story. He won the Rea Award for the Short Story, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. A devoted teacher, Bausch is a professor at Chapman University in Orange, California.

Photograph by Jebb Harris.




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Drew Wiberg is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is pursuing a degree in English with a focus on creative writing. The owner and operator of the People Under the Floor Press and Glaucus Objects, he specializes in publishing artists’ books and handcrafted fine-press limited editions.

Photograph by Deb Leal.

Letters to a Young Writer

In our continuing Letters to a Young Writer series, Narrative’s featured authors respond to comments and questions from younger authors reflecting on the nature of the writer’s work. Here     Richard Bausch responds to a problem posed by
    Drew Wiberg:

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