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WHY THEIR TIMING MATTERS
How Micro-Breaks Help You At Work
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A HEMINGWAY-ERA RELIC
Why You Shouldn’t Try To Write ‘The Great American Novel’
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PRO TIP
An Easy Way To Lose Readers Fast: Use The ‘Good News, Bad News’ Lead
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DO’S AND DON’TS FOR WRITERS
What Nobody Tells You About Media Ethics
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Why Baby Talk Turns Off Editors
How words like ‘yucky’ and ‘no-no’ can hurt you when you want to sell…
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My New Substack, Jansplaining
Yes, I have even more to say about books, the media, and life
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ARE WE ALL BEING PLAYED?
The Cult of Elena Ferrante
A lesson of the blockbuster ‘My…
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Rest In Peace, Pumpkin
A gifted journalist shows you how to write brilliantly about your dead pet in…
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A COVER-UP IN CANADA
The Misguided Hero Worship of Alice Munro
A scandal involving a…
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How Critics Decide What Books To Review
Why I didn’t do a Hemingway biography and more
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