Writerly Things with Brooke Warner

Writerly Things with Brooke Warner

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In celebration of love
 • Brooke Warner
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Back to the Basics
Why we're teaching the foundations of memoir this fall (with Piper Kerman, Ashley C. Ford, E.J. Koh, and Jeannine Ouellette)
 • Brooke Warner
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How to Negotiate a Book Contract without Alienating Your Publisher
5 Tips for Authors
 • Brooke Warner
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Make Your Prose Crunchy
An Exploration of Memoir’s Underused Senses (of Taste and Smell) with examples from Janet Fitch, Myriam Gurba, and Ruth Reichl
 • Brooke Warner
30
Why Does It Matter That I’m Reading So Much More AI-Enhanced Work?
Laments from an editor-publisher on generic, flat, uninspired writing
 • Brooke Warner
70
What critics are getting wrong about Molly Jong-Fast's "How To Lose Your Mother"
What you're missing if you think this is a revenge memoir or if you believe Molly sold her mother out
 • Brooke Warner
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Does Your Fiction Read Like Memoir?
On fiction, memoir, autofiction, and mostly true memoirs—and why it matters how the writing *feels*
 • Brooke Warner
62
Where Am I?
Musings of an Untethered American Publisher
 • Brooke Warner
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Attention Economy
Attention Economy
Leigh Stein
Blackbird's Flight School with Jennifer Lauck
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Jennifer Lauck
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