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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
How to Reject a Writer, and Other Advice For Editors
On Dealing with "Acid-Sucking Pieces of Illiterate Shit" and Holding the Poetry Editor's Penis
By
Terry McDonell
| September 1, 2016
Terry McDonell Remembers Jim Harrison
"Eat or Die" Was His Motto
By
Terry McDonell
| March 31, 2016
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