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All in the Timing: On Publishing a Novel Nine Years After Giving Up on It

All in the Timing: On Publishing a Novel Nine Years After Giving Up on It

Joy Lanzendorfer Considers Ambition, Failure, and Serendipity

By Joy Lanzendorfer | May 5, 2021

On the 19th-Century Food Writer Who Embraced Gluttony As a Virtue

On the 19th-Century Food Writer Who Embraced Gluttony As a Virtue

Discovering the Complicated Pleasures of Elizabeth Robins Pennell

By Joy Lanzendorfer | October 28, 2020

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

Joy Lanzendorfer on Balancing Social Anxiety and the Need for Writerly Networking

By Joy Lanzendorfer | June 18, 2019

Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again

Jack London, Rags to Riches and Back Again

Joy Lanzendorfer on the Author's First and Last Lives

By Joy Lanzendorfer | June 7, 2019

My Year of Smoke: Finding Echoes of Frankenstein in the California Fires

My Year of Smoke: Finding Echoes of Frankenstein in the California Fires

Joy Lanzendorfer on Mary Shelley's "Year Without a Summer"

By Joy Lanzendorfer | November 28, 2018

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