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No, I Can't Drive You to the Airport: A Freelancer's Life
A freelancer establishes herself as a professional writer and starts saying no to requests for her time.
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The Weird Things People Leave in Books
Bologna, paychecks, divorce papers, a taco, and other strange things librarians have found in books.
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How Being a Defense Attorney Prepared Me for Being a Full-Time Writer
A criminal defense attorney turned writer talks moral complexity in fiction.
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Freedom of The Press is Not a Given
A journalist recounts her experience with hard-line censorship in Egypt.
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In Defense of Milo Yiannopoulos's Book
I’ve been continually shocked by the willingness of many in the publishing industry to stifle Milo Yiannopoulos's opinions, writes Yiannopoulos's literary agent, Thomas Flannery Jr.
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Confessions of a Book FOMO Sufferer
A bookseller laments a severe case of fear of missing out on a book.
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Why the Milo Yiannopoulos Book Deal Tarnishes the Publishing Industry
When a major publisher legitimizes old-fashioned hate speech and rebrands lies as alternative facts, our authors lose, our books lose, and our country loses.
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In Memoriam: Dave Dutton
A sales rep remembers iconic Soutnern California bookseller Dave Dutton.
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Dear Publishers: Latinos Read Books, Too
A former New York state assemblyman takes publishing to task for underestimating the U.S. Latino market.
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Milo Yiannopoulos and the Slippery Slope of Free Speech
"If we, as publishers, cannot tell the difference between good and evil, between conscience and profit, between extremist views and the views our founding fathers put forth, we are no better than tabloids."
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