Assigned Articles

 Why it's important to read David Foster Wallace

NYT "Why do writers abandon novels?"  (featuring Michael Chabon)

NYT: Story is KING

 Does an Author Need a Website? HuffPo. (What are the ways in which a website could be obsolete? Consider mobile technology. Additional platforms. What parts of this interview are old-school?)

 Publish or Perish author Susan Orlean talks about how the process of getting a book published in her New Yorker blog

The Problem with Memoirs  (New York Times, January 28, 2011 "A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up." 

Kentucky Voices: Call to Civic -- and Civil Action by Kentucky Secretary of Finance and Administration, Jonathan Miller, guest speaker, January 25, 2011.

David Carr's NYT essay Publishing without Publishers

Author Michael Chabon blogs for a week for The Atlantic