Writing

In a video that began making the rounds last month, Meg Stalter describes herself as a writer in New York City ("can you get any more cliché than that, no you can't" she said), and gives some writerly advice.  Read more

Oh, the heyday of publishing - big desks, lots of cash, martini-soused three-hour lunches, trying to appease your government. That was the world in which TS Eliot, then a director of Faber and FaberClick for Faber and Faber Publishers References listing, was living in 1944, when he rejected George Orwell's Animal Farm for its criticism of Stalin, who was then Britain's wartime ally.  Read more

Sometimes a story demands more than just a plot to move its emotional content forward. When a story becomes very complicated, or a little too crowded with characters, or stretched over a long period of time, you may want to create a context. Context is the descriptive background in a story that sheds light on its meaning.  Read more

After years, it finally happened: I was published in a literary magazine alongside Diane, my ultimate writing enemy.  Read more

My entire childhood I hoped to write books, and entered the publishing industry after college on the now humorous assumption-humorously wrong, and also humorously correct for reasons I did not then understand-that being an editor would help me realize that dream. I became a full-fledged book editor in 2007, after the assumed unpaid internship and then editorial assistantship.  Read more