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The Ploughshares Round-Down: Should You Self-Publish Or Not?
A few months ago, I met a self-publishing millionaire. In just eighteen months, she had gone from an underpaid office worker with a laid-off husband to a beloved romantic erotica writer pulling in...
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Round-Down: Enough of Genre Debate Already
I’m a little disappointed in Jennifer Weiner. And not in the way you’d think. Certainly not in the same way as Jonathan Franzen. Rather, I’m disappointed that she’s seemingly buying into the genre vs....
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Writ in Water: Reservation Round
In a space like this, when we talk about genre fiction, we are often talking about its limitations: its conventions, its shallowness, its easy accessibility, its (overly) familiar repetitions, its...
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When Scientists Study Novels
Methodological reductionism—the practice of explaining something large and complex in terms of its smaller, wieldier parts—is both a strength and a pitfall of scientific approaches to literature....
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