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Recently PBS aired a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma (starring Romola Garai, right ), and I was reminded that Austen once described her title character as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” Of course, she underestimated...
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We’re in the middle of wrapping up the May issue; we’re copy-fitting articles and making last-minute changes. As I reread contributing editor Sarah Anne Johnson’s interview with Aleksandar Hemon, author of three story collections and...
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I’m on my second monster biography of Charles Dickens, after just completing Michael Slater’s recently published Charles Dickens (720 pages). This time I’m reading Peter Ackroyd’s 1,200-page Dickens , a 1991 release that I found...
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Unless you've been under a rock, you've probably heard something about Apple's newest venture: the iPad , which has so many features it’s hard to know how to categorize it. You can surf the Web; send e-mails; store photos and videos;...
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We recently finished our final edit on April’s Breakthrough column by Susan DeBow and I was struck again by one of Susan’s observations. The article traces how, amid a series of family losses and her experience at an Irish retreat for writers...
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Many of us, I'm sure, have been following the Macmillan/Amazon struggle for control over pricing digital books. Now imagine that a Macmillan imprint released your first book a week before the standoff that led Amazon to remove all Macmillan titles...
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I think a variety of freelance writers, novices and veterans alike, will enjoy an article by George Gurtner that we have coming up in our May issue (due out in early April). George is a veteran magazine columnist in New Orleans who has a real talent for...
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Anyone who loves film has likely read or watched the reviews of critic Roger Ebert , either in the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times or on television. And if you know of Roger Ebert, then you also know of his struggles with cancer over the past few years—including...
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Have you thought about entering our 2010 Short-Story Contest ? The contest is officially open, and you have until midnight on May 31 to submit your story. We're pleased to have Gotham Writers' Workshop co-sponsoring the contest this year. Not...
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In all the hub-bub of our upgrades to WriterMag.com and the start of our annual short-story competition, it’s easy to forget that we’re in the middle of the Sylvia K. Burack Scholarship competition . The competition, which awards $500 for...
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Today’s a snow day—at least, it’s snowing outside our offices in the Milwaukee suburbs. They’re forecasting up to 14 inches here, so some of us wondered if the company would close for a true “snow day”—but not...
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Have you entered WriterMag.com’s sweepstakes yet? All you need to do is fill out the official entry form on the Web site or print off the entry form and mail it in to us by the deadline. Thanks to Gotham Writers' Workshop and Write Brothers...
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When I was a reporter and editor at the late Cleveland Press around 1980 or so, some colleagues and I used to joke about the bone-dry writing style at “the other paper” in town, The Plain Dealer. Our standing claim was that all copy submitted...
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I’m reading Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which is about four generations of a family living in York, England. The hilarious Ruby Lennox starts off each chapter telling a story about her own life, while the second half of...
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Last week The Writer held its annual day-long retreat, and I’d like to squelch any rumors right now that the coddled staff was flown to an idyllic spot overlooking the Pacific, or a cozy meeting room with a roaring fire and wood-beamed ceiling in...
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