May 30, 2012
According to a highly dispiriting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "the percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010."
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According to a highly dispiriting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "the percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010."
Read MoreAt an AWP panel last year, I heard a prominent writer, hidden in an audience of non-prominents, ask an editor on the panel how many literary fiction writers were able to make a living off their craft. The editor thought for a second before giving a figure so depressingly low, with such chilling authority, that it elicited a collective groan-sigh from the audience.
Read MoreOffering hard-nosed, common-sensical financial advice for the aspiring American writer. In this first installment, the Hustlenomicist replies to a college senior considering the big move to New York—after all, NYC is Mecca for writers, isn't it? Isn't it?!!
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