Essays

What Good are Authors’ Estates?

By Jacob Silverman

June 7, 2010

You will die, and if your writing is any good, and thereby profitable to concerned parties, a melodramatic and legalistic morass may appear sooner than any volumes of collected works.

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Writing the Next Generation of American War Literature

By Michael David Lukas

May 18, 2010

Short stories, poems, and essays written by Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans in MFA workshops.

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Wrapped Up in the Loss of Print

By Megan Alix Fishmann

May 7, 2010

Losing print books means losing the personal touches that accompany them.

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The Strangeness of AWP: A Postmortem

By Aja Gabel

April 20, 2010

One writer's take on the annual writing conference.

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Letters of Note

By Jacob Silverman

April 1, 2010

The website devoted to "correspondence deserving of a wider audience" is fascinating.

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Amazon v. Macmillan: The Commoditization of Art

By Wanling Su

February 11, 2010

We are in the midst of a sea change.

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Consider the difference between James Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper; David Wallace and David Foster Wallace; or Jorge Luis Borges and Jorge Borges. Who would want to go down in history as Jorge Borges?

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