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Victor Luo
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The Worthwhile Relationship in Collaborative Writing
Writing is most often thought of as a solitary activity, and writers know the hazards of too many captains steering the ship of a single piece. At The Toast, Jilly Gagnon considers the ups and downs of working with a writing partner…
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On Being Jacques Lacan’s Daughter
A writer and translator in her own right, Sybille Lacan writes a series of reflections on what it was like to have the famous psychoanalyst/literary theorist Jacques Lacan as her father. Asymptote Journal has the story.
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The History of a Novel’s First Sentence
The great first sentence is not just a step on the path to a story but its own self-sufficient enterprise. Is it so easy to extract because it was unnaturally grafted on in the first place? We all know the obvious…
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Living the Frugal Writer’s Life
Over at Lit Hub, Sunil Yapa shares some guidelines on living cheaply as an up-and-coming writer. High up on his list: living outside of the United States: I believe at some point all writing roads pass through New York but you don’t…
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Building Your Dream Library
For the daytime version of your library you need some natural light. How will your library illustrate the romance of pursuing knowledge if you can’t see dust particles floating in sunbeams? How are you going to achieve enlightenment without light?…
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Publishing on Coffee Sleeves
Artmaking is a particularly human occupation. It deserves celebrating in small and big ways. Following the trend of microfiction on Chipotle bags and short story vending machines, a new endeavor from Coffee House Press called Coffee Sleeve Conversations is setting out…
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The Sound of Silence
So while silence can most certainly be boring, unsettling, unbearable, it can just as certainly be an aid to concentration and thus free the imagination. It can quiet the mind and open it to divine influences. This seems to depend on…
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The Importance of Leaving Book Reviews
Over at the Huffington Post, Christina Larmer makes the case for all readers to leave reviews if they want to support the authors they love: If you can find a minute—and that’s all it takes, I promise you—please jot a…
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The Debut Poets of 2015
Over at Lit Hub, some of the most notable poetry debuts of this past year talk about what it was like to release their first collections.
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Why Commercial Success Gets Criticized As Sentimental
Perhaps it is because there are so few proven paths to success, and so little success to go around, that when an acclaimed novelist actually succeeds on a large scale, highbrow critics can become vicious. While the novels praised as…
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The President’s Holiday Reading List
Electric Literature has the scoop on the list of books President Obama and his family bought during their recent excursion on Small Business Saturday. Salman Rushdie and Jonathan Franzen made their way onto the President’s reading list.
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How a Freelancer Prays
The writing life is hard, especially in the finance department and in the unstable nature of a freelancer’s status. Over at McSweeney’s, Marco Kaye writes a poignant representation of the inner monologue of the pleading, praying freelancer: Assist me in negotiating…