So when I'm working, I try to preserve that 4:30 to 6:30 am slot, no matter what. Depending on the day-I guess, pre pandemic-I would be able to take them to school or camp or whatever, and if I didn't have to teach that day, maybe I would get in other bits of work but I've always found something sort of magic about the time in the day before life comes and takes over your brain. I try to get up around 4:30 am, and write until my kids get up, whenever that is. Lynn Strong: My go-to when I'm in a project is definitely early mornings. What is a typical workday like for you when you’re in the middle of a project? She teaches fiction writing at Columbia and Catapult. She had a recurring column in The Guardian's “Two in Five” on the disappearing American middle class and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, The Cut, New York Magazine, and elsewhere. Lynn Steger Strong is the author of Hold Still and, most recently, of the novel Want. Here, we talk with Adjunct Professor and alumna Lynn Steger Strong '14 about early mornings, input phases, and giving your drafts space to breathe. I’ve so long admired this list and am honoured to have Flight be a part of it.Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors. The author added: “I’m so very thrilled to be working with Judith and the whole Scribner team. Flight is such a stunning novel and I can’t wait to share it with UK readers.” Through this fractured family trying to find their way forward, she explores the fragility and power of human connection, as well as themes of art, ambition, privilege and survival. “Lynn’s trademark observations about life really strike a chord. Long said: “I read Lynn’s previous novel Want (Henry Holt) in lockdown, devouring it in a day, and Flight is every inch as wonderful and compassionate, with characters who feel deeply authentic. But when a local child goes missing, the publisher synopsis continues, they are forced to come together. The novel follows three adult siblings and their families as they gather for their first Christmas since the passing of their matriarch, and tensions rise as they question how to be a family and uphold traditions without her. It will be published in November 2022 by Scribner in the UK and by Kate Nintzel at Mariner Books in the US. Judith Long, assistant fiction editor at Simon & Schuster UK, acquired the novel from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein, on behalf of Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management. Simon & Schuster UK has signed Lynn Steger Strong’s Flight, the story of a fractured family trying to move forward after a loved one dies and a local child goes missing.

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