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Aug23
Publishing Spotted: Private Detective Returns!

The Collected Stories (Fsg Classics)You can't keep a good novelist down. 

The LA Times reports on the return of Ross Macdonald, the private detective novelist who never got the respect he deserved and in my mind, holds a place in the Hardboiled Holy Trinity of Private Detective Novelists that includes Dashiell Hammett (who pioneered the form) and Raymond Chandler (who perfected the form).

But why take my word for it? Read the story! (Via Ed Champion via Sarah Weinman.)

Grace Paley, short story writer and poet, has died. Her stories have always supercharged my imagination, stretching the boundaries of both form and language. Read her stories and celebrate her life.

Over at Urban Muse, freelance Taylor DiMeglio has some advice about balancing a mountain of writing projects, urging you to just chill out. SlushPile has some similar advice for novelists, urging us to chill out on the research:

"If you’re working on the first draft, if your bit of needed info isn’t absolutely, positively crucial to the entire basis of your story, then skip it and move on."

 


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