Rebecca Schuman writes in Slate about UC Irvine’s new program to get graduate students out in five years, and sees an important benefit: a climb down from the idea of
I’m in London for a few days, doing some research for Rest. We’re staying at the Hotel Russell, which overlooks Russell Square in Bloomsbury. I’ve passed by it
In the New Republic Stephen Akey has a piece complaining about how literary agents choose who to represent. "Everyone’s trying to make a buck and literary agencies can
Lewis Lapham on how he writes: I didn’t enlist the help of a computer because words so quickly dressed up in the costume of print can pretend to
Voice of America correspondent Rachel Jones has a great piece (in LinkedIn, which against many odds is turning into kind of an interesting outlet) about “How Ben Bradlee's
Yesterday I had a piece in Slate that talks about robot butlers, human butlers, and the work that butlers actually do— and how different it is from the
I love this: The Times of London is piping the sound of old-fashioned typewriters into its newsroom. Nearly three decades after Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper publisher revolutionised the
When we're faced with a problem, either we solve it or it solves us." (Stephen King, from an interview with Wallace Stroby)
If you can reach this Chronicle of Higher Education article on “Things You Should Know Before Publishing a Book," read it. Elizabeth Knoll worked in both academic and trade publishing,
I've never been to the Tour de France, but looking over the last few years, the race turns out to have inspired a number of pieces of writing: