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When Should You Stop Reading A Book?

Here’s how I made the call on Percival Everett’s ‘James,’ a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer frontrunner

Dec 29, 2024

Percival Everett and the cover of “James”

Dec 29, 2024

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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, 2024

Still from “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix

Oct 14, 2024

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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, 2024

Sucess Ahead road sign

Mar 5, 2024

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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 Banned Books Need Honest Reviews

Writers play into the hands of pressure groups when they withhold valid criticisms of challenged books

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Covers of first edition and later movie tie-in edition of “Sold”

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Lit Life

Cringe Book Review Clichés That Deserve To Die

67 words or phrases we’ve all seen too often

4d ago

Cringe Book Review Clichés That Deserve To Die

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What I Didn’t Know About Book Banners Until They Hit My Town

I’d covered them as a journalist but didn’t realize their real aims until they came for my library

May 12

2022 book ban protest in Georgia

May 12

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Lit Life

What Is Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ Really ‘About’?

Jump into the conversation at my classic-short-stories club

May 11

Title page of the Suntup Editions graphic adaptation of “The Lottery”

May 11

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Why I Couldn’t Finish The 2025 Pulitzer Fiction Winner, ‘James’

Another look at my problems with an acclaimed novel

May 5

Why I Couldn’t Finish The 2025 Pulitzer Fiction Winner, ‘James’

May 5

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Medium’s Stats Are A Train Wreck

Something has gone badly wrong when you get 3 reads and earn $.08 for a boosted story on the first page of a Google search

Apr 30

Photo of a 1962 train wreck in Steelton, Pa.

Apr 30

Janice Harayda

Janice Harayda

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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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