Malta Tourism Authority to American thriller writers: set your books in Malta!
Can a small European country increase its touristic appeal by encouraging three American thriller writers to use it as a setting for their books? As The Awl’s Alex Balk likes… Read more »
Boring headlines on the internet are bad. Unlike boring book titles, which are good.
There are only so many ways to title an article, an essay, or a blog post, and most of those ways are very boring. Indeed, in 2015, titles are more… Read more »
Writing drunk: Olivia Laing finds links between writing and drinking
We’ve all heard Hemingway’s “Write drunk; edit sober,” and Baudelaire’s “One should always be drunk.” We’ve imagined our favorite writers at typewriters with highballs or with rings of wine on… Read more »
How do you publish long form work? Talking shop with Evan Ratliff, Aaron Lammer, and John Shankman
We wrote to three publishers—Evan Ratliff of The Atavist, Aaron Lammer of Longform, and John Shankman of The Awl—to ask how they continued to publish long form work, how they… Read more »