Category Archives: Literature

Calling Bullshit on a Writer’s Top 10 Excuses for Not Writing

Peter Mountford lays down the hammer. Want to write? You need to read this list. And live by it. No shoes, no shirt, no service. Continue reading

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Debut Novelist or Garage Rocker? You Decide!

Being a writer and a rocker are almost exactly the same thing. Kari Luna, who excels at both, provides a ten-point guide on How To Succeed At Everything. Continue reading

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The Lurking Anti-Feminist

How loving “Adrienne Eisen’s” “novel” prompted Sari Botton to unsubscribe from “Penelope Trunk’s” newsletter. Yes, the women in quotes are one and the same. Continue reading

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The White Whale of Book Blurbs

Patrick Wensink Stalks the star of Man Vs. Food and dodges flying French toast all in the name of scoring the most elusive book blurb on earth. Continue reading

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The Art of the Guild

Freemasonry seems old-fashioned, if not obsolete. But Jennifer Sky argues that writers of the digital age have a lot to learn from the freemasons. Continue reading

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Art & Life & Lunch With Will Self

Sam Mills sets out to meet her hero, Will Self, and meditates on food, fiction and second comings, plus the spiritual enlightenment of celebrity culture Continue reading

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There Will Be Cheap Swill

Hank Cherry breaks down the play-by-play from the latest installment of The Weeklings Literary Readings Series. He also dances to Madonna. Continue reading

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