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Posted inFeatured, History, Nonfiction, Quotes

This Essay is the Very Pineapple of Writing

by michelleweber April 30, 2018October 19, 2022

This is the most important pineapple-themed essay you’ll read today.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Uncategorized

Art in the Age of Blockchain

by mlegro January 25, 2018October 19, 2022

Why a rare Pepe meme is now easier to authenticate than a Leonardo.

Posted inBooks, Featured, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison

by heymarkarms February 18, 2017October 19, 2022

INTERVIEWER You mentioned getting permission to write. Who gave it to you? MORRISON No one. What I needed permission to do was to succeed at it. I never signed a contract until the book was finished because I didn’t want it to be homework. A contract meant somebody was waiting for it, that I had […]

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Marilynne Robinson on Writing and Discipline

by heymarkarms July 21, 2015October 19, 2022

INTERVIEWER Do you keep to a schedule? ROBINSON I really am incapable of discipline. I write when something makes a strong claim on me. When I don’t feel like writing, I absolutely don’t feel like writing. I tried that work ethic thing a couple of times—I can’t say I exhausted its possibilities—but if there’s not […]

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

E. B. White on the Secret of Writing for Children

by heymarkarms June 30, 2015October 19, 2022

Anybody who shifts gears when he writes for children is likely to wind up stripping his gears. But I don’t want to evade your question. There is a difference between writing for children and for adults. I am lucky, though, as I seldom seem to have my audience in mind when I am at work. […]

Posted inGuest Pick, Reading List

Six Stories About the Swimming Pool

by Emily Perper June 14, 2015October 19, 2022

Stories about swimming and swimming pools.

Posted inGuest Pick, Reading List

Six Stories About the Swimming Pool

by Emily Perper June 14, 2015October 19, 2022

Stories about swimming and swimming pools.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

James Salter on Writing and the Open Road

by juliawick June 10, 2015October 19, 2022

The author’s 1992 interview with poet Edward Hirsch.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

The Secret to Honesty in Writing

by heymarkarms May 5, 2015October 19, 2022

“It didn’t occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret.” –Author Louise Erdrich, in the Paris Review. Read the interview

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

The Secret to Honesty in Writing

by heymarkarms May 5, 2015October 19, 2022

“It didn’t occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret.” –Author Louise Erdrich, in the Paris Review. Read the interview

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