Write to Get Paid
“I really believe that most writers in America have taken on this idea that we’re never going to get paid–and so we accept so little for what we do, when what we do is so valuable. And it’s wanted.”...
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THE BLURB #18: The Long Haul
“Though I have doubted my talent, I’ve never doubted my conviction that this was the path I had to be on. Writing is like my Siamese twin: freakish, alive, weighty, uncanny. Were we to be separated, I...
View ArticleOn Your Wedding Day
This letter to an ex posted on her wedding day by CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen raises some interesting questions on public discourse, using your life in your writing, and intended readership.His...
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DIY Publishing & Marketing Seminar In San Francisco
On August 23rd, 826 Valencia in San Francisco is hosting their second Adult Writers’ Seminar from 7-9 pm. This seminar focuses on DIY Publishing and Marketing.The panelists are a full slate of...
View ArticleRoxane Gay
Roxane Gay is writing some consistently amazing stuff at HTMLGIANT. Today she has an essay on Franzen hating and what we care about and what matters. But it’s much better than that, lyrical, full of...
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On Blowing My Load: Thoughts From Inside the MFA Ponzi Scheme
“Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good...
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Lorrie Moore at The New Yorker Festival
Notes I took on what Lorrie Moore said while in conversation with Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker‘s fiction editor, that I felt selfish keeping to myself:How to become a writer:-You can’t carve...
View ArticleFebos and Marcus on Memiorville
In this conversation, Melissa Febos makes a good point: What’s great about writers talking with writers is that they talk about writing.Febos, the author of the memoir Whip Smart, could just recount...
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WHERE I WRITE #1: Hotels, Highways, Hotspots, Haiti
If I were independently wealthy, I would be less for it, because the chase for money to pay for food, shelter, babies, and now small children has taken me from sharing with two women an eighty square...
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THE EDITOR’S DESK: Personal History
Some things I wrote from the age of 21 to 27.I wrote this story called “Sunshine” about a guy who picks up a hitchhiker and they move in together. They drink too much and she becomes a prostitute and...
View ArticleSigrid Nunez Remembers Susan Sontag
Here’s some weekend reading: Sigrid Nunez has written a beautiful memoir of Susan Sontag in the latest issue of Tin House. (The text is not available online, but I highly recommend you pick up this...
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert McKee
Robert McKee is best known to the world in two ways: as the guy who teaches the popular STORY seminar in Los Angeles and around the world to would-be screenwriters, and as the character in the film...
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Henry Miller in Lotos Land: Paint as You Like, and Die Happy
Thinking back on his first stay in Hollywood, Miller often reminisced about the Green House, “where I made so many watercolors, sold them for a song or for an umbrella I had no use for, but where I...
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