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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

Oct 14

Still from “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix

Oct 14

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‘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

Mar 5

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Mar 5

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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

Mar 31, 2023

What Do Publishers Really Pay You For A Book?

Mar 31, 2023

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Why We Need ‘Democracy In America’ More Than Ever

A Frenchman’s great book about the United States still speaks to our times and the presidential election

5d ago

A color portrait of Alexis de Toqueville

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Why Nobody Wants To Read Your Memoir

Personal stories have fallen out of favor with editors and critics, but these steps may help you beat the odds

Oct 29

Cover and photo of author of “I’m Glad My Mom Died”

Oct 29

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Beyond the Scoreboard

Why I Love Wacky Sports Fans

They add fun to my life even if they make others cringe

Oct 24

A Dodger fan at a Dodger game with his face painted as a baseball and “Viva Los Dodgers” printed on his forehead.

Oct 24

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Lit Life

Alexei Navalny’s Memoir Is Being Compared To This Classic

A few words on ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’

Oct 23

Detail from the cover of Alexei Navalny’s “Patriot”

Oct 23

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Lit Life

Why I Went To Bed ‘Monster Smut’

Novels about women who have sex with beasts are — on more than one level — hot. What’s behind the trend?

Oct 21

Cover of an audiobook of “Morning Glory Milking Farm”

Oct 21

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Lit Life

Three Of My All-Time Favorite Crime Novels

These are good enough to reread even if you know ‘whodunit’

Oct 19

Paramount promotion for “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”

Oct 19

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How Imitating Superstar Authors Can Hurt You As A Writer

Only the latest example comes from Sally Rooney, ‘the book world’s Taylor Swift’

Oct 15

How Imitating Superstar Authors Can Hurt You As A Writer

Oct 15

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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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