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There are as many ways to get paid as a writer as there are writers trying to get paid. That's a good-news, bad-news scenario. This is an overview of the situation.

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A review of Ken Russell's 1986 classic 'Gothic' depicting the infamous night in which literary history was made.

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Richard Wright's new view of African-American writing after the Harlem Renaissance.

Blake Bailey's new biography of the well-known difficult life of John Cheever doesn't do enough to illuminate Cheever's valuable place in American literature.

Networks show little effort in reviving comedy.

Effective anecdotes do more than entertain readers. They reveal truth and evoke an emotional response in readers that draws them in and keeps them reading to the end.

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Tilda Swinton is an enigmatic actress who shuns convention in both her professional and personal life.

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Learn how to become a freelance writer in your spare time. Get tips on how to secure paid writing assignments in newspapers, magazines and as a business copy writer.

The second edition of The Well-Fed Writer by freelance commercial writer Peter Bowerman offers a step-by-step map to a lucrative career in business writing.

Fifty years ago Rod Serling introduced television viewers to a collection of short video dramas that covered aspects of both the supernatural and science fiction.

Publishers and writers know that keeping in touch with readers makes the difference between success and failure. Email newsletter software helps them achieve this.

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