Woman of Letters

How to write a creepy guy for an audience of women

Back when short stories were popular, they were also bad...but in a good way.

My newsletter was started to promote a book that I never talk about.

How to review books for the New York Times

The next literary movement?

It's the most powerful ideology of the last two hundred years, but it will fail eventually.

This working-class writer has turned into a symbol of elitism

Highbrow literature has acquired a fandom. To succeed, writers need to manage it.

Somebody will have to pay for this

Even studio executives have ambition. We should be thankful for it.

The Samuel Richardson Prize For Best Self-Published Literary Novel (or Story Collection)

If your book has shallow, lifeless characters, you've got to work twice as hard to make them interesting