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Subject: Our Marketing Plan by Ellis Weiner, The New Yorker, Oct. 19, 2009
Resolved: Writing is a Job, Ann Patchett, The Washington Post, December 13, 2009
A writing career becomes harder to scale, by Dani Shapiro, Los Angeles Times, February 07, 2010
Day Jobs, Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring 2010
Best Advice, Janet Burroway, Narrative Magazine, Winter 2010
The 12 Greatest Literary One-Hit Wonders, The Huffington Post, June 15, 2010
A literary career or a brilliant, successful one-off? Take your pick, Robert McCrum, The Guardian “The Observer”, May 16, 2010
Great Writers, Bad Novels, The Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2010
Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit
What’s The Story? Writers Reveal Why They Write, Talk of the Nation, NPR.org, July 29, 2010
Inspiration Revised, Allegra Goodman, The Wall Street Journal, October 23, 2010
Why do Writers Abandon Novels?, The New York Times, March 6, 2011
Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? – Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, October 20, 2008