Some thoughts occasioned by recent 1-star reviews
Every now and again I listen to a fellow writer ranting about bad reviews, or telling a funny story about bad reviews,…
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Wife
Last year, two and half months before the publication of Hild, I emailed my editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux: “I hope it’s…
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I’ve just read (yeah, I’m behind, again) an interview Charlotte Abbott did with Martin Duberman in the Advocate last month. A new…
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This is a fabulous article from the Washington Post, a series of vignettes by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. The piece is…
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