“When they did the first printing of Tinkers, I immediately went through and started changing it,” says Paul Harding about writing his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press, 2009), in this 2011 interview about his writing process and learning from mentors at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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