— Mark Twain ’s routine – and other daily rituals of literary greats. (via explore-blog)
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— Mark Twain ’s routine – and other daily rituals of literary greats. (via explore-blog)
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“Reading through the slush pile is like looking for tigers in the jungle: they’re camouflaged not only by their stripes but their surroundings. An editor has to be unflaggingly alert and discerning, alive to any perceptible movement in the shadows.”
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— James Baldwin (via theparisreview)
A telegram from Dorothy Parker to publisher and editor Pascal Covici. (via)
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Often wondered this about media organizations. What makes reporters excellent at story-getting often makes them catastrophic at managing other people, etc.
What If You Don’t Want to Be a Manager? - Anne Kreamer - Harvard Business Review
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There are great bloggers. And there are people who are very good at managing bloggers (although that’s a lot rarer, and probably harder). But the chances of finding one of the latter in the ranks of the former? Approximately nil. Josh Marshall, maybe?
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Did you know that Norman Mailer once affected a bohemian goatee? Well, he did.
Dear lord…