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Dec 29, 2024

When Should You Stop Reading A Book?

Here’s how I made the call on Percival Everett’s ‘James,’ a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer frontrunner

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Oct 14, 2024

Think You Can’t Get Sued For Putting Real People In Fiction? Think Again.

You can’t protect yourself as a creator just by changing names — but here are 5 tips from that could help

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Mar 5, 2024

‘I’m In My 20s And Want To Be A Writer. What Should I Be Doing Right Now?’

The brutal truths nobody tells you about launching a writing career when you’re just a few years out of school

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Mar 31, 2023

What Do Publishers Really Pay You For A Book?

Learn from these 63 mind-blowing (or heartbreaking) ‘advances’ paid to bestselling or barely selling authors

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Looking for a Good Book? This Could Be Your Worst Way to Find One

I made the mistake of trying a bizarre tool created by the editors of the New York Times Book Review

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Oct 14

Is Writing Stories How We ‘Co-Create’ Ourselves With Others?

Prize-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki thinks so and develops the theme in her first short story collection, ‘The Typing Lady’

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Oct 9

Why Anna Wintour Should Retire from Vogue

I worked for Vogue’s sister magazine Glamour, and Wintour has set herself up for the fate of other top editors there

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A Shocking Atrocity of the War in Ukraine We’re in Danger of Forgetting

A masterly new book recalls the bombing of a Mariupol theater despite the clearly visible word ‘children’

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Was George Orwell Right That Many Book Reviews Are ‘Disgusting Tripe’?

He argues in famous essay that inflated praise from critics can turn off readers and make them avoid novels altogether

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Sep 26

What Nobody Tells You About ‘Theo of Golden’

You’ll get a lot of ‘chuckles’ from Allen Levi’s bestselling novel, but they may not make you laugh

Publisher’s official image of Theo’s bench in the bestselling novel “Theo of Golden”

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Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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