Archive for April, 2004


Dan Wakefield

interviewed by

Originally published on April 6, 2004

In the 50s we were told that to be a good writer you had to be a good drinker. It did a lot of people in. We thought Dylan Thomas dying at 39 was glamorous and romantic.

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Can You Learn to Write? I Never Had To

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Originally published on April 6, 2004

I do not believe there has ever been a successful writer who has not studied writing to learn the craft.

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Stephen Koch

interviewed by

Originally published on April 6, 2004

I find little point in giving advice that isn’t crystal
clear. It’s hard enough to write well, without having to first divine the
meaning of some perplexing Delphic utterance from Stephen K.

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