Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Haolun Xu. Fifteen years ago, in the halcyon days of social media, book publicists began urging fiction writers to set up social media accounts, particularly on Twitter, to help promote their books. Many of the authors I knew groused that nothing worth saying could be said in 140 characters […]
Summer of writing: An online retreat with Guardian Masterclasses This summer is for you: the writer. The writer you currently are, and the one you aspire to be. Whether you’ve written a full novel draft or you’re just about to embark on your creative journey, whether your ideas are buzzing around your brain, or your […]
Hilary Swift for The New York Times Here’s my attempt to summarize the context of the Hollywood writers’ strike in three sentences. First, the entertainment business, floated on easy money and encouraged by the unusual conditions of the Covid era, committed itself to an unsustainable expansion — the great streaming experiment, in which every major […]
