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The Craft of This Mortal Coil: Jonathan Gluck on Writing a Different Cancer Story
Terry McDonell in Conversation with the Author of “An Exercise in Uncertainty”
By
Terry McDonell
| June 11, 2025
Graydon Carter on
The Golden Age of Magazines
Terry McDonell Talks to Legendary Editor About His New Book
By
Terry McDonell
| March 25, 2025
How To Write About Your Mother
Terry McDonell: “I did not set out to write about Irma.”
By
Terry McDonell
| May 12, 2023
“I Never Saw Her Cry.” Terry McDonell Remembers His Mother, Irma
“What passes between a mother and a son is not defined by her love in the moment, but later by the echoes of her motherhood.”
By
Terry McDonell
| May 1, 2023
How Hunter S. Thompson Would Cover Donald Trump
Swap the Name "Trump" for "Nixon" and Let It Rip…
By
Terry McDonell
| August 3, 2017
So You've Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?
Once Upon a Time, Writers Made Five Dollars a Word
By
Terry McDonell
| August 2, 2017
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So You've Decided to Write: Is Your Novel Actually Fiction or Non?
By
Terry McDonell
| August 1, 2017
So You’ve Decided to Write: The Best Way to Deal with Rejection
By
Terry McDonell
| July 27, 2017
So You've Decided to Write: The Writer I Never Had to Edit
By
Terry McDonell
| July 26, 2017
So You've Decided to Write: Will You Tell the Truth?
Terry McDonell on the Deal All Writers Have to Make With Themselves
By
Terry McDonell
| July 25, 2017
So You've Decided to Write: On Editing James Salter
Terry McDonell on Working with a "Writer's Writer"
By
Terry McDonell
| July 20, 2017
So You've Decided to Write: Take Advantage of Your Insomnia
Terry McDonell on the Importance of Taking Nighttime Notes
By
Terry McDonell
| July 19, 2017
So You've Decide to Write: What I Learned Editing Hunter S. Thompson
Terry McDonell on the Origin of 'Gonzo' and Late Night Calls from Hunter
By
Terry McDonell
| July 18, 2017
So You've Decided to Write: What I Learned From Editing Jim Harrison
Part Three of Terry McDonell's Summer Series on Becoming a Writer
By
Terry McDonell
| July 13, 2017
So You've Decided to Write: When to Drown Your Darlings
Part Two in Terry McDonell's Summer Series on How to Be a Writer
By
Terry McDonell
| July 12, 2017
So You've Decided to Write: Advice from a Great and Notorious Editor
Introducing a New Summer Series on Writing from Terry McDonell
By
Terry McDonell
| July 11, 2017
My First thriller: Megan Abbott
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by
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"King captures her guileless sense of awe with just a dusting of parody that never…"