I just came across this 2006 Publishers Weekly piece about Jim Harrison. I confess I’ve never read any of his work (I’m dreadfully ignorant in the modern fiction
I think it’s fair to say that unless you’re an academic*, everyone who writes a book hopes that it’ll do well enough for them to start writing full-time.
Novelist Ted Thompson has a good interview in Salon about the writing business. Well worth reading.
"It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future." (From his Paris Review interview.)
From a Paris Review interview with Italo Calvino: I could try to improvise but I believe an interview needs to be prepared ahead of time to sound spontaneous.
As someone in the process of selling a second book project, I did not need to read Emily Gould's piece in Medium, "How much my novel cost me."
I've got a piece on binge-watching in the latest issue of Slate. In that piece, I mention that I've been doing interviews with people about their viewing habits.
In a recent Random House blog essay, writer and bookseller Fiona Ducan argues that "we read more, and in more ways, than ever, and this is thanks to
On the heels of Kathryn Schulz’s essay on the impact of Twitter on her writing comes high school teacher Andrew Simmons’ equally thoughtful explanation of how "Facebook Has
Journalist and "wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz has a long piece in New York magazine about her relationship with Twitter: I’ve never before gone mad for any type of technology.