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Why Write

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WHERE I WRITE #1: Hotels, Highways, Hotspots, Haiti

  • Kyle Minor
  • January 27, 2011
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…
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Febos and Marcus on Memiorville

  • John Knight
  • October 5, 2010
In this conversation, Melissa Febos makes a good point: What’s great about writers talking with writers is that they talk about writing.
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Lorrie Moore at The New Yorker Festival

  • Elissa Bassist
  • October 4, 2010
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…
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On Blowing My Load: Thoughts from Inside the MFA Ponzi Scheme

  • Anelise Chen
  • October 1, 2010
"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 teacher." – Flannery O'Connor
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DIY Publishing & Marketing Seminar In San Francisco

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • August 5, 2010
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…
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THE BLURB #18: The Long Haul

  • Stacey DErasmo
  • July 26, 2010
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 doubt that I could survive it.
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Write to Get Paid

  • Elissa Bassist
  • June 21, 2010
“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…
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Henry Miller in Lotos Land: Paint as You Like, and Die Happy

  • Victoria Price
  • December 3, 2009
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…
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert McKee

  • Sheila Heti
  • November 17, 2009
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,…
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Sigrid Nunez Remembers Susan Sontag

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • November 6, 2009
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…
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Listen to Metal on Metal and Everything Will Be Okay

  • DeLeon DeMicoli
  • October 28, 2009
Just because you don’t succeed the way others define success, you’re not a failure. You just chose to take a different path. And who’s to say that’s wrong? I just…
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The Scholars and the Pornographer

  • Carolyn See
  • October 13, 2009
Dame Helen Gardner and George Newton Bowlin Laws—it seems funny, but very good to me to see them in the same sentence. I first saw Helen Gardner, brilliant scholar, denizen…
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