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Writing

I Don’t Think I’m That Good

October 26, 2011

Funny how stuff jumps out at you right when you need it… This week I’ve been reading Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, the biography of Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein. If you’re a follower of my Artist Series of interviews, I’m sure this comes as no surprise: I like [...]

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Promotion, Attention, and Making Great Art

July 20, 2011

I came across an excellent post about John Mayer’s recent Master Class at his alma mater, Berklee College of Music, that resonated with me as an essayist and artist. With the advent of social media has come a new era of business expectations and new definitions of businesspeople; it’s largely considered insufficient to be only [...]

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David Sedaris on Tobias Wolf: Writers on Writing

May 4, 2011

A few weeks ago I went to see David Sedaris read some of his work at The Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale. I’m a huge fan of personal essays (Sedaris and Bailey White are favorites) and listening to the radio programs “The Moth” and “This American Life.” I don’t consider myself an auditory learner by [...]

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The Artist Interviews: Baratunde Thurston, Comedian and Writer

April 18, 2011

Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, author and vigilante pundit who successfully combines technology, politics and comedy. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack & Jill Politics in the summer of 2006, hosted Popular Science’s Future Of on Science Channel, and works as the Director of Digital at The Onion. Baratunde has contributed to Vanity Fair, The UK [...]

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Pursuing Credible Ideas: Think Critically

March 29, 2011

This past week I told my story about publishing my first book and contracting my second, talked a bit about self-publishing and the value of gatekeepers, and then looked at The Domino Project as a bit of a case study about gatekeeping. For as many people who responded enthusiastically, I also managed to tick a [...]

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Domino Project: It’s Gatekeeping

March 24, 2011

Well, I’m sure we’ll step in it with this, but whatever. I’m poking the box. I probably have to find a bunker somewhere for doing so. After I told my personal publishing story, last time we talked about self publishing and gatekeepers and how gate keepers are an important part of how we find ideas. [...]

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Self Publishing, The Road to Info-Paralysis

March 15, 2011

Last week I shared a vaguely painful post about my personal experience in the publishing world as someone who has published a book with a traditional publisher and is currently partnering on a new project to do so again. If you haven’t read that story, I’d recommend you get all the dirty details. They’ll help [...]

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Publishing a Book: My Story

March 12, 2011

Later this week I’m going to post about the dynamics of publishing, the future of publishing, and the effects gate-keeping have on publishing and readers. It all relates to critical thinking, and I want to explore it with you. There’s been a lot of talk lately about the future of publishing, especially with the release [...]

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