by [embedded content] Little Richard at the 1988 Grammys “Interestingness = Novelty + Importance” and other simple writing advice from The Atlantic‘s David Thompson “When the Taliban offers you—a pregnant, unmarried woman—safe haven, you know your situation is messed up.“ One of my best pandemic decisions: a subscription to cooking magazine Milk Street Tales of the manuscript thief: Someone, or possibly a cartel of someones, was impersonating influential figures in the publishing industry to get access to unpublished manuscripts. They would pretend to be a heavyweight literary agent, say, or an editor, and would send convincing-looking emails to publishers asking that they send on the soon-to-be released novels of an array of writers, some famous and some not. Sometimes they’d approach the
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- Little Richard at the 1988 Grammys
- “Interestingness = Novelty + Importance” and other simple writing advice from The Atlantic‘s David Thompson
- “When the Taliban offers you—a pregnant, unmarried woman—safe haven, you know your situation is messed up.“
- One of my best pandemic decisions: a subscription to cooking magazine Milk Street
- Tales of the manuscript thief:
Someone, or possibly a cartel of someones, was impersonating influential figures in the publishing industry to get access to unpublished manuscripts. They would pretend to be a heavyweight literary agent, say, or an editor, and would send convincing-looking emails to publishers asking that they send on the soon-to-be released novels of an array of writers, some famous and some not. Sometimes they’d approach the writers themselves. They’d make such underhand moves as changing a letter or two in their email address (e.g. @randornhouse.com instead of @randomhouse.com), using great sneakiness and considerable amounts of time and energy to do – what? To read a book slightly earlier than everyone else did.