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This Is Literary: A Conversation with Taffy Brodesser-Akner

  • Sara Fredman
  • July 31, 2019
Taffy Brodesser-Akner discusses her debut novel, FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Jaquira Díaz

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • August 17, 2016
Jaquira Díaz discusses the challenge of writing about family members, her greatest joy as a writer, and her literary role models.
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Labor of Love

  • Guia Cortassa
  • June 14, 2016
Writing as art can be what economists call a “non-market” activity. The time we spend writing poems or novels, like the time we spend doing laundry, is usually time not…
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Self-Publishing Vs. Traditional Publishing

  • Victor Luo
  • June 9, 2016
Who hasn’t felt that awkward moment between laughing and crying when the question, “do writers make money?” pops up? Unlike movie-makers and musicians, exact figures for authors’ earnings have always been…
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Net Worth

  • Roxie Pell
  • May 31, 2016
…we’re all still struggling to ascribe value to a digital product. Keeping a literary magazine alive in 2016 may seem impossible, but there are still those out there who are…
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Oxford Lit Fest Will Consider Paying Authors

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • January 20, 2016
Last week, Philip Pullman pulled out of the Oxford Literary Festival because the event does not pay authors. Now, Oxford, at least, is saying that it will consider paying all…
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Unique Pageviews Don’t Pay Your Web Hosting Bill

  • Ian MacAllen
  • November 17, 2015
Wil Wheaton created quite a fuss last month with an essay about Huffington Post’s request to republish an essay from his blog sans payment. When we called attention to a Salon…
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Computers Replacing Writers

  • Sam Riley
  • September 13, 2011
There are those companies that don’t pay their writers to produce content in order to save money, and then there is this. Narrative Science software produces content. It’s being used…
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