When the AWP conference was held in New York City a few years ago, I attended a discussion panel focused on the ways an up and coming writer could make a living without going into academia. At one point during the question and answer period a young woman, apparently dissatisfied with the advice given thus ...
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When I was traveling through the Midwest about a month ago, I randomly took a copy of the Wall Street Journal from the lobby of my hotel on the way out one morning, and on the front page was an article about the growing popularity of digital books. The reporting focused specifically on the rise ...
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In Poetics, Aristotle offers two valuable observations about the creation of art. First, and most significantly, Aristotle tells us "not to know that a hind has no horns is a less serious matter than to paint it inartistically". In other words, it is less important for a writer not to be fully informed about the ...
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Recently a friend asked me to make a list of books I would recommend for someone who would like to read some serious literature, and in doing so, I realized that a list like this could serve as a useful primer for anyone who reads what I write in this space. That being said, what ...
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