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The Writing World Needs a Free-Market Mindset

All I Want for Christmas Is a Literary Agent

Announcing Girl Soldier

High School English Teachers Are Teaching Writing Incorrectly

The Arts Need Each Other

Revising Your Query Submission Materials

Louisa May Alcott's "Polish Boy"

The Dullness and Falseness of Writing Conferences

Tell, Don’t Just Show

Author Liza Libes on ‘The Lilac Room’ & Edith Wharton

The Strange Death of Literary Men

How to Get a Manuscript Request from a Literary Agent

Is Literature Losing Its Audience Because of Politics?

Don’t Believe That The American Dream Is Dead

Let's Get The Lilac Room in Front of My Future Agent

How to Secure a Literary Agent Referral

Oscar Wilde's “Impression du Matin”

Literary Agent Rejections

How to Build Your Literary Agent List

W.B. Yeats' "Lullaby"

Publishing's DEI Problem

10 Substack Publications Accepting Guest Posts

The Left Lost My Soviet-Refugee Grandmother. Now They’ve Lost Me Too.

Rethinking Ivy League Admissions

How to Deal with Rejection

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land - Part 5

Your Guide to the Query Package

The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

On Publishing, Agents, and Queries

Midnight Writing and Rejecting Influences with Liza Libes

On the Importance of Writing

Why I Am Not a PhD

What is Literary Fiction?

A Letter from the Founder

12 Rules for Writing

Leave Literature Alone

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land - Part 4

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land - Part 3

Tips For Aspiring Poets: How to Get Published in Literary Journals

Q&A with Liza Libes

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land - Part 2

Proud Not to Be PhD

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land - Part 1

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land - Background and Intro

Top 10 Books of All Time

How to Develop a Personal Brand and Online Presence

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts"

What is Postmodernism?

One English Major’s Journey to Success

The Poetic Tradition: On Perfecting Your Craft

A History of Literary Criticism