Can I gush about a book here for a moment? And its author? I first met Tatjana Soli at the Sewanee Writers Conference almost six years ago now, on the bus up …
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Calling loudly, "J.D. Salinger"
In 1941, J.D. Salinger had seven stories rejected by The New Yorker. Apparently undaunted, he submitted an eighth the same year, "Slight Rebellion off Madison," …
Unrecognized Talent (or the Lessons of Rodin)
I was drawn to a documentary about the sculptor, Auguste Rodin, this afternoon because one of my favorite places to write when the weather is good is on a bench …
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Jane Austen: Fourteen Years of Rejection
I just read a wonderful piece in The Literary Review that says, in the context of a review of a new book about Jane Austen: "In 1797, Thomas Cadell made one of …
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Sheryl Cohen Solomon: If At First You Do Succeed
My guest this week is Sheryl Cohen Solomon, a writer of very funny and touching personal essays. She published her first essay in North Shore Magazine. The …
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Brenda Rickman Vantrease: A 136-Rejection Overnight Success
My guest blogger today, Brenda Rickman Vantrease, is the author of the critically acclaimed The Mercy Seller, and the national bestseller, The Illuminator, …
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