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If you’re looking for a thoughtful gift for a recent graduate, consider Ann Patchett’s What Now? , based on her commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, her alma mater. In the slim volume, she describes her own initial frustration when...
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Next week, I’ll be at BookExpo America at New York’s Javits Center, sharing a booth with our friends at Gotham Writers’ Workshop . BEA is the country’s biggest publishing event, where thousands of publishers, writers, booksellers...
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In my life away from The Writer , I’ve kept fairly busy as a professional musician, and I’ve always found the parallels between searching for one’s voice as a writer and one’s voice as an improvising musician to be strikingly similar...
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I’m pleased to announce that The Writer magazine is now available on Barnes & Noble’s e-reader, the Nook. Our digital edition looks just like the print version--and you can browse page by page or zoom in on any article or advertisement...
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I recently read Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake , about a young girl, Rose, who discovers that she can taste the emotions of the people who have prepared her food—from her mom all the way to the farmer who plucked the ingredients...
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If you join a writing group or workshop, you’re bound to encounter work that isn’t really to your liking. Maybe it’s in a genre that you avoid, or maybe the writer’s style doesn’t wow you. Then again, maybe the manuscript...
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Kalmbach Publishing Co., which puts out The Write r, has recently added another magazine to its stable, Discover , and I’ve been enjoying my initial looks at the copies circulating around the building. Discover offers a well-written, well-assembled...
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