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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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What’s So Great About Hemingway’s Most Famous Short Story?

Join the conversation in my classic-short-stories club

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Black-and-white photo of a young Ernest Hemingway in Africa in 1934

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Lit Life

The Secret Codes Of Book Critics

The hidden meanings of 25 clichés overused by reviewers that may not help you as a writer

6d ago

Cover of “The Accomplice” by 50 cent

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Lit Life

A ‘Historic’ Win for India and Its Writers

Why Banu Mushtaq deserved her major book award for stories about a long-overlooked group of women

May 29

Color photo of Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq at the IBP ceremony

May 29

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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

May 20

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

May 20

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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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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

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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