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ne of the more enjoyable parts of my job is getting on the phone with writers all over the U.S. and Canada to assign stories. It sure beats sending out rejections on queries, since I'm delivering good news. Typically, as happened Tuesday, I'll...
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Publishers Weekly had an interesting piece recently on a new trend in smart-phone applications. In "The App Boom Hits Publishing," Craig Morgan Teicher writes that apps for iPhones, Blackberrys and other cell phones, which number in the tens...
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I've been promising myself for years to do more writing, but I was letting everything get in the way until I took a Gotham Writers' Workshop online class recently. I decided to try the Fiction I class. The class was 10 weeks long--just perfect...
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A couple of weeks ago on this blog, I lamented the demise of my library's old due-date slips with the stamps as my connection to the readers who borrowed the book before me. As I mentioned, I liked to imagine who the book's previous readers were...
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We're doing the last reads and space-fitting on our December articles this week at The Writer and my scalpel has gotten dull and eyes glazed over from what feels like a thousand micro-trims. If, as an editor, you want to avoid cutting into the muscle...
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Once again, we are accepting entries to the Sylvia K. Burack Scholarship competition, which is open to full-time undergraduate students in the U.S. and Canada. This year's topic: "Select a work of fiction or poetry that has influenced the way...
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It's pretty easy to get worked up about the state of literacy and writing these days. The lament goes something like: "Young people don't read, and they certainly don't write." Such refrains can easily devolve into a sort of "what's...
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Earlier this week I attended a poetry reading at Boswell Books in Milwaukee featuring Marilyn Taylor , Wisconsin's poet laureate and author of The Writer 's Poet to Poet column. She was joined by B.J. Best , who is the author of four chapbooks...
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Not to be missed, if you want an inside look at today's mainstream publishing scene, is Daniel Menaker's blunt summary for the online Barnes & Noble Review . Menaker is former executive editor-in-chief at Random House and fiction editor of...
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Google thinks it has found a way to make reading newspapers and magazines online a more pleasurable prospect. This week Google introduced Fast Flip, which pulls articles from The Washington Post, The Atlantic and other news providers and arranges them...
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We often ask contributors to The Writer to include recommended reading along with the article they are submitting. Invariably Janet Burroway's textbook Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft is on their list. I've been hearing and reading...
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A kind reader called me today about a story he'd read in The Boston Globe last week about Cushing Academy , a private prep school outside of Boston. It seems that the school's administration has decided that having actual books in the school's...
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Two articles of special interest to nonfiction writers have recently come out, one in The Paris Review , the other in Vanity Fair . I think you'll find both of them absorbing. The first is an in-depth interview with Gay Talese, by Katie Roiphe, in...
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The New York Times has a piece today on the buildup to the Sept. 15 release of The Lost Symbol, the latest book by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown. The Today show is running a weeklong preview of the book, a Twitter campaign is in high gear, and bookstores...
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For the many writers in our audience who enjoy narrative history, I have a strong recommendation for you: Candice Millard's The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey , which came out in 2005. This is a simply smashing tale, with...
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