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Cathy Day’s latest blog post is about time and why she can’t help every stray would-be writer who calls her. She has a wealth of online and social media resources, she says, but she has to draw a line...
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Good week for interesting book reading! The Millions compares contemporary fiction to contemporary Detroit — both due for a comeback now that the economy has burned them down. The article mentions...
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I’ll be bogged down at AWP for the next few days, so no weekend roundup from me. But there’s plenty of book news to go around already: Selections from one-star reviews of Moby-Dick at Amazon. I’m no...
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Chapter 16 has an interview with Appalachian poet Jesse Graves — the poet and the interview are both well worth checking out. An argument against funding MFAs. Interesting, because the guy who donated...
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Feedback for James Joyce if he were to submit Ulysses to a workshop. CS Monitor writes about the resurgence of independent bookstores. Paper is here to stay, at least according to this French...
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It’s been a busy week for the WITTScasters, but the world doesn’t stop. Fiction Writers Review interviews J. Robert Lennon. The Review Review submits New Yorker stories, which are soundly rejected. No...
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I don’t know what’s going on in Cathy Day’s literary citizenship class, but her students are coming away with a harsh (realistic?) view of publishing. On one hand, I really admire this effort at...
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Let me see if I can avoid drawing the ire of frisky undergraduates this week. Book experts weigh in on the revolution in publishing. The Rumpus interviews Adrian Van Young. What writing programs ought...
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Sam Lipsyte interviews himself. More about the future of publishing. Our Purdue friend and colleague James Tadd Adcox has a new project, a downloadable correspondence between him and Robert Kloss....
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Do writers really retire? I’m skeptical of public announcements. I quit blogging last year, yet here I am. That’s it, I’m retiring again. The message of literary magazine covers: “Don’t read me.”...
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