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Hustlenomics #1: Living to Write vs. Writing to Live

February 24, 2012

Offering 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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