Why I’m Not On Twitter Yet
Last fall, when I sold my debut story collection to Grove/Atlantic, a smart friend whose book had just come out (and was doing extraordinarily well) wrote to encourage me to get on Twitter, stat. He...
View ArticleRoundup: The End—Putting Your Story to Bed
In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines, centered on a certain...
View ArticleThe Ploughshares Round Down: How To Tell People What Your Book Is About
Last week, I received a fiction pitch I knew I would reject a few lines in. It contained the phrase, “after he discovers a family secret long since buried.” (Or something like that.) I wrote back to...
View ArticleThe Ploughshares Round-Down: Publishing Isn’t Dead
There’s an old joke in publishing about consultants, though it’s probably rooted in truth. A new executive hires a prestigious firm to spend months on an expensive deep dive, and they come back,...
View ArticleRound-Up: NC Anti-Trans Bill, Who Reads the Most e-Books, and PEN’s Israeli...
From authors who are taking a stand for human rights to a new study revealing who reads the most e-books, here’s all of last week’s literary news: Several authors have responded to North Carolina’s...
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