HeyJaredMary, the Devourer
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Can we make highbrow fiction accessible? (opens the original)
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Hello friends,Back in July I visited Calder Gardens, a new museum in Philadelphia.<img alt="https://caldergardens.org/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fhgw4kgi0%2F
How to Be a Conversation Partner: Clare Osongco and Unfinished Business (opens the original)
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Hello friends,As an author, I am perpetually trying to double-dip. What I mean is that I want everything I do to also do something else. I think it was Maggie Stiefvater who said that every scene you write should be doing at least two things, and if you write a scene that’s only doing one thing (or, God forbid, zero), you should make it do an additional thing or cut it.I try to apply that philosophy to what could loosely be framed my “promotional efforts,” although most of what I’m referring to
On Writing vs. Getting Good (opens the original)
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Hello friends,I have been thinking in an undirected way about the relationship between creative writing and money, which is a topic that is bandied about on Substack A Lot. I am not interested in digging into it here. I like to spend my time writing books, and my own preference would be to get paid zillions of dollars for writing the books, and that’s essentially my whole stance on the matter. It’s not a very spicy stance. I assume it is the foundational stance of basically everyone (especially
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