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A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

Lorraine Berry on the Way She Tries to Make a Living

By Lorraine Berry | October 18, 2017

Riding Out Hurricane Irma with a 900-Page Book

Riding Out Hurricane Irma with a 900-Page Book

Or: How to Survive a Clusterfuck of Hurricanes

By Lorraine Berry | September 26, 2017

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

Just Because You Can Write it, Doesn’t Mean You Have to Publish It

By Lorraine Berry | May 24, 2017

My Job Writing Custom Erotic Love Letters

My Job Writing Custom Erotic Love Letters

Lorraine Berry on the Time She Paid the Bills as a 'Literary Courtesan'

By Lorraine Berry | February 14, 2017

Mitchell Jackson on John Edgar Wideman and the Beginning of Black Lives Matter

Mitchell Jackson on John Edgar Wideman and the Beginning of Black Lives Matter

In Conversation with Lorraine Berry on the Legacy of the Till Family

By Lorraine Berry | January 9, 2017

12 Writers on the Books They're Giving as Gifts This Year

12 Writers on the Books They're Giving as Gifts This Year

Robin Wasserman, Sarah Hepola, Morgan Jerkins, and More

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We Are All Sisyphus: On Following Soccer, and Family Rivalries

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How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

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On the Systemic Economic Barriers to Being a Writer

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