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Writing

Advice for genre-influenced writers who are applying to MFA programs (part one,two, three, and four)

Writing a novel in eight days (parts one, two,three, four, five, six)

The third novel (parts one, two, three, andfour)

800 short story rejections (700, 600,500, 400 and 300)

Today I wrote my one millionth word of crap

Status anxiety

The statistics of inspiration

What do you do when the writing isn't easy?

I've just freed myself from the tyranny of duotrope

On becoming a worse writer

Where I get my stories from

Why I am going to stop giving out writing advice (2012)

Why I am loathe to give writing advice (2011)

Revising the novel

The worst-case scenario for my writing career

Reading

There should be a National Coming-Out Day for people whose favorite novel is _Atlas Shrugged_

I don't think reading books is likely to make a person smarter, happier, or more economically productive

Let's Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste, by Carl Wilson

The Feminine Mystique(part one and part two)

The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford

The Second Shift, by Arlene Russell Hochschild

The Warden, by Anthony Trollope

In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust

Working, by Studs Terkel

Genji is a rapist

Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother is a literary masterpiece

Euripides is the bomb

Rahul reads Shakespeare

The Hunt For Red October might be the most uncool book in the English language

Why Video Games Matter

The main thing I've learned from Banned Books Week is that book banning is a pretty minor problem

I Write About "My Stephen King Problem"

The Collected Poems of Phillip Larkin

What does it mean to be against the canon?

Confessions of a Pick-up Artist Chaser

The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene

Does anyone actually enjoy cliffhangers? (A Dance With Dragons)

Authors who I've read in depth

The first and last novels that made me cry

Stranieri, by Tristan Gans

Chicklit novels

Life is too short to waste time on boring books

Against Interpretation, by Susan Sontag

God's Harvard, by Hannah Rosin

The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon

If you die and leave me with your brilliant unfinished manuscripts, I will burn them

Comedic novels

Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve comics

Fun Home, by Allison Bechdel

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

The joy of short novels

Crime novels with interesting structures

Woman as financial vampire

Old School, by Tobias Wolff

And The Band Played On, by Randy Shilts

The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford

Some pretty awesome plotless novels

The poverty and evanescence of literary acclaim in SF

Why I am deeply suspicious of Malcolm Gladwell

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

The first science fiction novel

Do you folks enjoy reading poetry?

Anatomy of a literary pageturner

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe

Vanity Fair, by William Makeapeace Thackeray

“If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

Wired Magazine

Farthing, by Jo Walton

Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford

Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys

Burmese Days, by George Orwell

Horatio Hornblower, by C.S. Forester

Rahul's Question: Where are all the bad books?

Other

Notes from the first week of an MFA program

On being back in DC

I don't believe in moderation

The Beardmancipation Proclamation

The second season of the Game of Thrones

The Game of Thrones television show is superior to the books.

Thoughts engendered by my return to computer gaming after an absence of two and a half years

We should all stop being so self-deprecating

The Television / Refrigerator Axiom

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