How much does a writer make? The Rejecter (“I don’t hate you. I just hate your query letter”) breaks it down.
How Much Does A Writer Make?
100 Days that Changed Canada
Denise Donlon writes on the day MuchMusic rocked the tube. Peter Mansbridge details when baseball player Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. And Conrad Black outlines a train trip by Canada’s first prime minister. Those are but a few of the essays by well-known Canadian personalities in the new book 100 Days That Changed Canada (HarperCollins Canada), now in stores.
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Points of Entry
When somebody you’re talking to brings up a writer -- say Richard Russo -- that you haven’t read, but should have, you probably say you haven’t read them because you “just don’t where to start.” Unfortunately, the folks at Book Riot just published a book, Start Here, that might blow up your excuse.
Don’t Be Her
Want to be a female travel writer? That's great, says Jessa Crispin, just please don't be Elizabeth Gilbert.
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Reading Lolita at Twelve
At the Paris Review Daily, Nick Antosca reminisces on reading Lolita at 12: “Who among my seventh-grade classmates, I wondered with a frisson, was such a creature? What girl had that ‘soul-shattering, insidious charm’ that, while invisible to me, made the antennae of certain adult males tremble?”
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A Look at the Guantánamo Prison Library
New York Times reporter Charlie Savage set up a Tumblr dedicated to cataloging some of the books available in the Guantánamo prison library for detainees.
Julia Whicker’s Song of the Exile
What to do when novel writing gets painful? Start a fashion blog.
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