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All about Anthologies: A Roundtable Discussion

  • Lilly Dancyger
  • March 18, 2021
With Lilly Dancyger, Sari Botton, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, and Christine Taylor.
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“Dear Abby” for Books

  • Kirstin Allio
  • September 22, 2016
Stop any comparisons… turn to your own project with laser-beam focus, and bolster your own campaign as if you’ve spent years of blood, sweat, and tears working on this creative…
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Hating Your Own Book Trailer

  • Lyz Lenz
  • February 4, 2016
Slate is on the case, looking at why so many book trailers are self-loathing: Behold Jonathan Franzen, opening his book trailer for Freedom with the words: “This might be a…
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Annoying Authors

  • Lyz Lenz
  • April 16, 2015
Writer Delilah Dawson on why self-promotion for authors is a bad idea: From the very beginning of my writing career, I’ve been told that publishers want a writer to have…
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A Nation of Readers

  • Alex Norcia
  • September 11, 2014
At The Atlantic, Yori Applebaum chronicles a marketing tactic taken by American publishers in the midst of World War II. They sent free books to the troops overseas, succeeding in…
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The Self-Promotional Balancing Act

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 11, 2014
When does sending an email blast about an upcoming event become spam? Writers are as much publicists as they are authors, and social media hasn’t made things any easier. Over…
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Paying for a Book Tour

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 18, 2014
Katey Schultz published her debut collection of stories, Flashes of War, through a university press. Lacking the support of a major publishing house meant Schultz ended up self-financing her book tour.…
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Where Has All the Anonymity Gone?

  • Sam Riley
  • June 21, 2011
What are the cultural consequences of cell phone cameras, social media websites, and online photo hosts? The degradation of anonymity and an obscured understanding of privacy. It’s shockingly simple to…
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Welcome to Rumpus Books

  • Andrew Altschul
  • March 14, 2009
At The Rumpus, we believe that a healthy literary culture is one which embraces writing of all kinds, by authors of all stripes – young and old, established and emerging, traditional and experimental, writing from the margins or from (or about) the heart of mainstream culture, published by “major” houses or by smaller presses.
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What I Learned at AWP

  • Andrew Altschul
  • February 17, 2009
The Rumpus dispatched dozens of our top reporters to Chicago. None of them were heard from again.
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