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You may have already seen the following list floating around the Internet, but a colleague of mine at Kalmbach Publishing Co., who is an editor at Classic Trains , recently sent it around and I found it amusing. Enjoy. --R on Kovach, senior editor, The...
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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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This week The Writer staff is finishing first edits on our August articles, and that issue features an unusually strong lineup of author interviews we think you’ll enjoy. Look for our conversations with Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning screenwriter...
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Items from the papers in the last week or so ... The London Guardian reports that most Americans oppose the new version of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn --new because the publisher replaced the n-word and other offensive terms...
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I’ve been reading a remarkable and thoughtful new collection of short stories recently – a collection written by our very own contributing editor, Erika Dreifus. Her book Quiet Americans contains seven stories inspired by the experiences of...
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Finally caught up last night to this week’s debut of AMC’s new 13-part whodunit The Killing and what a debut it is. It struck me as a beautifully constructed model for a series opener, or, for that matter, the opening of a suspense novel....
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About 11 years ago, when I found Betsy Lerner ’s The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers on the shelf of a local bookstore, I snatched it up and took it home. After reading it, I just knew I had to work in publishing. I initially...
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Jill Dearman, a writing coach in New York City who has written twice for our magazine in recent years, offers this intriguing writing exercise “to get your mojo percolating.” Try it for 15 minutes, she advises: "The Lie" One character...
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You’ve no doubt heard the advice that a writer shouldn’t quit his day job—not only in the context of a perhaps-not-so-promising manuscript, but also because few writers today can support themselves solely on profits from their writing...
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