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Lorraine Berry

Lorraine Berry
Lorraine Berry's work has appeared in the Guardian, Salon, Diagram, and other magazines. She and her partner run amberSands.net. Find her @BerryFLW.


A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

Lorraine Berry on the Way She Tries to Make a Living
October 18, 2017  By Lorraine Berry
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Riding Out Hurricane Irma with a 900-Page Book

Or: How to Survive a Clusterfuck of Hurricanes
September 26, 2017  By Lorraine Berry
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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
May 24, 2017  By Lorraine Berry
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My Job Writing Custom Erotic Love Letters

Lorraine Berry on the Time She Paid the Bills as a 'Literary Courtesan'
February 14, 2017  By Lorraine Berry
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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
January 9, 2017  By Lorraine Berry
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12 Writers on the Books They’re Giving as Gifts This Year

Robin Wasserman, Sarah Hepola, Morgan Jerkins, and More
December 19, 2016  By Lorraine Berry
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How Writers Are Getting Back to Work

Celeste Ng, Sara Novic, Morgan Jerkins and others on How Catastrophe Affects Daily Practice
December 13, 2016  By Lorraine Berry
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We Are All Sisyphus: On Following Soccer, and Family Rivalries

A Literary Look at the Beautiful Game, From Camus to Villoro
July 6, 2016  By Lorraine Berry
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Umberto Eco on Donald Trump: 14 Ways of Looking at a Fascist

The Leading Republican Presidential Candidate is More
Mussolini Than Hitler
February 29, 2016  By Lorraine Berry
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How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

On the Systemic Economic Barriers to Being a Writer
December 4, 2015  By Lorraine Berry
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