Maggie Smith
Mix Tape: Do the Right Thing
“Two questions: 1) Do you submit work (poetry, fiction, or nonfiction) to literary journals? 2) Do you subscribe to any literary journals? If the answer to Question 1 is ‘yes’ and the answer to Question 2 is ‘no,’ then we…
Mix Tape: Supermodel Novelists and Politician Poets
There is, in Vogue’s September issue, an 18-page photo feature “depicting a handful of actors, artists, models, and writers posing as [Edith] Wharton and her circle.” So why are male writers featured, but no female writers? Certainly someone more literary…
Mix Tape: Mindful Writing, Mindful Submitting
An interview with Dinty W. Moore on being a mindful writer. “There is nothing wrong with wanting a career, some recognition, a steady salary, and, most importantly perhaps, the access to a wider readership that comes with success, but it…
Mix Tape: Inventors, Masters, Starters of Crazes
Will the old writing you’ve disowned—the poems full of mixed metaphors, the stories you never knew how to end, the essays that seem to fall flat—follow you around forever? And, as readers, “are we somehow wrong if we seek out—and…
Mix Tape: Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain
A look at the gratuitous-by-nature acknowledgments page—from “faux-modest self-promotion” to name-dropping to the ubiquitous list of friends and colleagues. “Is it really so gratifying to be recognized in print when your name is included on a list that looks like…
