Tax Tips for Writers: Save Money While Playing by the Rules
Tax season is coming up, but it doesn’t have to be intimidating. The author explains how writers can follow the rules to their advantage to protect their earnings.
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In “When the Novel Swiped Right,” Jennifer Wilson, a contributing essayist for the New York Times Book Review, tracks the effect dating apps have had on contemporary literature. In the essay, Wilson points to writers who have creatively used dating apps as a narrative device, such as Sally Rooney, Brandon Taylor, and Sarah Thankam Matthews, and encourages more writers to take advantage of how the apps “make possible encounters among characters who might not otherwise come into contact by virtue of differences in age, race, or class.” This week, write a story that involves two unlikely people meeting on a dating app. What do they discover as they get to know each other?
Sink by Joseph Earl Thomas
Joseph Earl Thomas reads the chapter “The Stars, The Ocean, The Boys” from his memoir, Sink, published in February 2023 by Grand Central.
Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank
Tanya Frank reads the opening chapter of her memoir, Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood, published in February 2023 by Norton.
Welcome Me to the Kingdom by Mai Nardone
Mai Nardone reads from “Handsome Red” from his story collection, Welcome Me to the Kingdom, published in February 2023 by Random House.
The Speak Angel Series by Alice Notley
Alice Notley reads from the opening of her poetry collection The Speak Angel Series, published in February 2023 by Fonograf Editions.
Patricia Smith on Truth in Poetry
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“More people are turning to [poetry] for truth,” says Patricia Smith in this 2018 interview with Lauren K. Alleyne for The Fight & The Fiddle, the quarterly online publication of the Furious Flower Poetry Center. For more on Smith, read “Unshuttered: Patricia Smith’s Journey Into the Aperture of History” by Tyehimba Jess in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Take What You Need by Idra Novey
Idra Novey reads from the fourth chapter of her novel Take What You Need, published in March 2023 by Viking.
Q&A: Bashir Leads Lambda Literary
Lambda Literary’s new executive director shares her goals for expanding inclusivity at the nonprofit by engaging writers across genres, mediums, and identities.
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The Written Image: Crystallized Books
Inspired by books and magazines she found discarded on the street, Oakland-based artist Alexis Arnold explores the vulnerability of printed media by transforming books into sculptures with crystallized borax.
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