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A Day in the Life of a Russian Author’s Wife
A Day in the Life of a Russian Author’s Wife
By Rachael Daum
October 23, 2014

Vera Nabokova, Sophia Tolstaya, Anna Dostoyevskaya and Natalia Solzhenitsyna — suffering and child-rearing, while acting as wife and secretary to genius.

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What Sartre's Refusal of the Nobel Prize Can Teach Writers
What Sartre's Refusal of the Nobel Prize Can Teach Writers
By Steve Neumann
October 22, 2014

On October 22, 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize in Literature, setting a precedent and an example for other writers.

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People Say the Darndest Things About Translation
People Say the Darndest Things About Translation
By Rachael Daum
October 16, 2014

Dispatches from an angry translator.

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A Tool for Writing More, a Community for Writing Better
A Tool for Writing More, a Community for Writing Better
By Michelle King
October 09, 2014

As its name implies, Write-Track helps you assess your daily writing against personalized goals, but it also offers you the support of a community.

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An Open Letter to Critics Who Won’t Review Self-Published Books
An Open Letter to Critics Who Won’t Review Self-Published Books
By Arvind Dilawar
October 06, 2014

The deluge of the Information Age has made it difficult to keep pace, but that doesn’t mean we should discriminate so callously.

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One Second, Dear, Mommy’s Writing
One Second, Dear, Mommy’s Writing
By Trisha Leon
September 30, 2014

The difficulty of being both mother and author.

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“The Most Splendid Failure” – William Faulkner on The Sound and the Fury
“The Most Splendid Failure” – William Faulkner on The Sound and the Fury
By J. Francis Wolfe
September 24, 2014

Now hailed as a masterpiece, Faulkner's novel was initially written off by the public and the author himself. Why?

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What a Dying Poet Taught Me
What a Dying Poet Taught Me
By Steve Neumann
September 18, 2014

Denise Levertov teaches an aspiring poet that it’s more important to know how to live than to know how to write.

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Ken Kesey’s Exhausted Heroes
Ken Kesey’s Exhausted Heroes
By J. Francis Wolfe
September 17, 2014

Randle Patrick McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hank Stamper of Sometimes a Great Notion: two men of incredible strength whom Kesey brings to their knees. Why?

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Forget the Haters: Agatha Christie for Life
Forget the Haters: Agatha Christie for Life
By Benjamin Welton
September 15, 2014

Born 124 years ago today, Christie may be a write-off for snobs, but her continued popularity proves her significance.

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