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Dec 29, 2024

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

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Oct 14, 2024

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

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Mar 5, 2024

‘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

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Mar 31, 2023

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

What Do Publishers Really Pay You For A Book?

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Jun 27

Why ‘The Book Club For Troublesome Women’ Might Trouble You

Marie Bostwick’s soap-operatic fairy tale does an injustice to a great female publisher, Katharine Graham

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Jun 21

What Publishers Won’t Tell You About Their Bestselling Books

10 examples of what critics really said but you won’t see in ads for books by Ann Patchett, Belle Burden, Sarah J. Maas, Patrick Radden…

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May 25

Why I’m Done With Tana French

Her new ‘The Keeper’ wasn’t a keeper for me

Tana French and her 2026 novel, “The Keeper”

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May 14

An Ethics Mess At The Pulitzer Prizes for Books Awarded Last Week

Does the fiction Pulitzer need an ethics makeover?

An Ethics Mess At The Pulitzer Prizes for Books Awarded Last Week

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Apr 23

Jalen Hurts Needed More Coaching For His New Children’s Book

A Super Bowl MVP takes his eye off the needs of his young intended receivers in ‘Better Than A Touchdown’

Quarterback Jalen Hurts and his first children’s book

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Apr 21

Where Did Those Mysterious Easter Island Statues Come From?

Surprising answers arrive in a new book by an archaeologist who led excavations at Stonehenge

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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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