Where did the pulp fiction writers find the narrative engines that propelled their books? In the case of David Goodis--one of my favorite hardboiled writers-- he was inspired by the personal urge to escape! Sarah Weinman explains in her new LA Times column...
You think you have a hard time balancing your job and writing career? Nick Antosca, author of Fires, works at a hedge fund by day and writes novels by nights. Check out his insightful interview over at New York Brain Terrain and figure out how to balance your own life too.
Plenty of people are arguing about the state of book reviews and literary criticism in the digital age. Bill Marx is actually doing something about it by teaching a new course at Boston University about the evolution of 21st Century criticism: Arts Criticism: From the Old Media to the New. Go visit Chekhov's Mistress for more details.
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