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On Writing (and Rewriting) Illness
You don't usually get writing advice this specific and workable about a long, complicated manuscript. With Jesse Kornbluth, I lucked out.
Dec 16, 2025
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When a Novel Touches a Writer
What Leonard Gardner's FAT CITY meant to Denis Johnson, as we consider the new biography
Dec 3, 2025
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Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes Revisited--Again
Before I knew from high, low and middle brow, there was Radio City Music Hall.
Oct 14, 2025
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What Does Your Character WANT?
If you don't know what they want--big picture, scene-by-scene, and in the dialogue--you might need a tune up.
Sep 23, 2025
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2 Stories about Robert Redford & 1 w/ Paul Newman
One story in the books, one in my ear.
Sep 17, 2025
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Do You Come Here Often?
Kitchen Work, Issue 2, Winter 2017. "In a long career of writing just about anything for money, I was once hired to..." Notable Essay, BEST AMERICAN…
Sep 15, 2025
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