The Futility of Chasing a “Successful” Writing Career
The writer Emily Gould has a lovely essay for Medium this week — an excerpt from a new book of essays called MFA vs. NYC — on the way her Big Triumph, the sale of a book of essays for the fantastic sum of $200,000, turned out to be a sort of professional albatross. “It took me a while to realize that my book had failed. No one ever told me point-blank that it had,” she writes. “It was more like the failure occurred in tiny increments over the course of two years, after which it was too late to develop a solid Plan B.” … Read More
Melissa Broder Is Twitter’s Most Fascinating Poet
There have been a few good examples of fiction writers using Twitter to give us stories. Teju Cole’s “Hafiz” remains my favorite of them all, but others (like the ones Isaac Fitzgerald wrote about at BuzzFeed Books) have shown that social media can benefit writers in ways other than promoting their latest story or upcoming reading. … Read More
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