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Two Takes on “The Pale King” by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace’s “posthumous unfinished novel,” The Pale King, has arrived — let the commentating begin. Over at Slate, Tom Scocca tears down Michiko Kakutani’s review of the new book, and of the...
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Freelance Writing and Editing Rates
In the course of some googling, I came across a few useful links regarding editorial and writing rates. First, from the Professional Writers Association of Canada: What to Pay a Writer. Next up, the...
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Graham Greene on the Victorian ‘Death Wish’
I’m going through some old notes and came across an interesting tidbit about Graham Greene and the Victorians. The context, briefly: A 1966 review in the Times Literary Supplement tackled a new...
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Writer Richard Van Camp on ‘the Magic of the North’
NWT writer Richard Van Camp talks writing and the North in this article from the Camrose Canadian: I’m going to give you the only possible advice any writer can give you: if you want to be a writer,...
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Origin Stories: Esquire’s Chris Jones
I’ve written before about my habit of digging up the “origin stories” of writers I admire. This weekend, while procrastinating on a story rewrite that’s due on Monday, I fell down the internet rabbit...
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The Rumpus Talks Truth in Memoir
This is a favorite, much-kicked-around topic of mine, and earlier this week the good folks at The Rumpus added a fresh contribution to the debate. Messing With Memoir is an essay about the author’s...
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How Bruce Chatwin ‘Saved Travel Writing’
I was catching up on some back issues of Harper’s a few weeks back, and this quotation about the author of In Patagonia and The Songlines caught my eye: He saved travel writing by changing its mandate:...
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More From Chris Jones: On Writing, Fear and Disappointment
Awhile back I added Esquire’s Chris Jones to my collection of writers and their origin stories. I got the story of Jones’ big break from his blog, which turns out to be kind of a gold mine for people –...
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C.S. Lewis to Joel Stein: Grow Up.
A couple weeks back, the New York Times published a piece by Joel Stein, arguing that adults should not read books aimed at youth. There have been plenty of cogent, scornful, and indignant responses,...
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11 More Outdoor Adventure Memoirs by Women
I had a hell of a time writing my Outside Online story, Before Cheryl Met Oprah: 5 Other Outdoor Adventure Memoirs by Women. When I pitched it, I’d had an idea of the books I wanted to include in the...
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