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• D-day (2012-01-31)
• Review of the day (2012-01-29)
• Climbing the charts (2012-01-25)
• A Big Week (2012-01-16)
• Advertising Jacob (2012-01-12)
• Another Star (2011-12-16)
• Tour Schedule (2011-12-15)
• How to Start (2011-12-08)
• Up the Amazon (2011-12-06)
• Jacob earns a star from PW (2011-10-24)
• Jacob’s English jacket ()
• Q&A (2011-10-13)
• How to Tell a Story (2011-09-10)
• A blurb from Joseph Finder (2011-08-25)
• Uncovered (2011-08-23)
• Public Writer, Private Writer (2011-08-12)
• Nook: So far, so good (2011-07-28)
• The Whitey Bulger book I’d like to read (2011-07-18)
• Promoting Jacob (2011-07-01)
• The Death of Print (2011-06-28)
• Leonardo, procrastinator (2011-06-26)
• Think Quantity (2011-06-10)
• Win an advance copy of “Defending Jacob” (2011-06-08)
• The creative cycle in a nutshell (2011-06-06)
• “And then I saw her…” (2011-06-03)
• Orwell on Dickens (2011-06-02)
• Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer! (2011-05-27)
• Why are we attracted to crime stories? (2011-05-09)
• Pre-first edition (2011-05-05)
• Orhan Pamuk: “A writer is…” (2011-05-04)
• The Patron Saint of Writers (2011-05-03)
• Defending Jacob update (2011-04-30)
• Write because you feel like writing (2011-04-29)
• Rilke: “The Man Watching” (2011-04-25)
• Three thoughts on starting a new novel (2011-04-24)
• Why do writers like working in coffee shops? (2011-04-20)
• The end of the shy author? (2011-04-06)
• Austin Kleon’s 10 Tips for Writers (2011-04-03)
• What Creativity Means (2011-03-29)
• Sunday poem: “Tonight I Can Write” by Pablo Neruda (2011-03-27)
• Blurbathon (2011-03-24)
• Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers (2011-03-22)
• The Five Commandments (2011-03-21)
• Blurbing Jacob (2011-03-11)
• Jacob’s knife (2011-03-08)
• Reading vs. Writing (2011-03-07)
• “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur (2011-03-06)
• Neil Gaiman: Web piracy is good publicity (2011-03-04)
• Good News, Bad News, Great News (2011-03-03)
• Copyright Run Amok (2011-02-21)
• Daniel Pink: What Motivates Us (2011-02-16)
• Creating Billy Bathgate (2011-02-11)
• “Madame Bovary” translated by Lydia Davis (2011-02-08)
• What to Write (2011-02-07)
• Don’t Do It For Anyone Else (2011-01-23)
• How To Become a Writer (2011-01-18)
• Flaubert at Work (2011-01-16)
• Malamud: “work in uncertainty” (2011-01-13)
• Fast Fish and Loose Fish (2011-01-10)
• Chinatown (2011-01-06)
• Fuck you, Melville! (2011-01-04)
• In Between Days (2010-12-31)
• Fitzgerald: What people are ashamed of (2010-12-23)
• Salman Rushdie: writing out of “your best self” (2010-12-16)
• Nabokov’s cards (2010-12-14)
• In the wry (2010-12-08)
• Darwinian Theories of Art (2010-12-06)
• Shoes (2010-11-18)
• Eddie Coyle comes to the stage, almost (2010-11-16)
• “Best Society” by Philip Larkin (2010-11-10)
• Still lifes by Christopher Stott (2010-11-05)
• No such thing as a bad review (2010-11-03)
• Voices in Our Heads (2010-11-02)
• George Orwell Writes a Novel (2010-11-01)
• Updike: Words that enter in silence and intimacy (2010-10-27)
• Happy St. Crispin’s Day (2010-10-25)
• Off to NYC (2010-10-19)
• What are books good for? (2010-10-17)
• The contract with the reader (2010-10-16)
• How Writers Write: Margaret Atwood (2010-10-15)
• “The ordeal is part of the commitment” (2010-10-14)
• “Next” (2010-10-13)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle … Live (2010-10-11)
• The Cure for Procrastination (2010-10-08)
• Drawing Circles (2010-10-05)
• Procrastination and the Divided Self (2010-10-04)
• The origin of “I coulda been a contender” (2010-10-02)
• Bellow on Inspiration (2010-09-29)
• Giotto’s Red Circle (2010-09-27)
• For Writers (2010-09-24)
• What “finished” means to a writer (2010-09-23)
• Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from (2010-09-21)
• The Wages of Worry (2010-09-19)
• What makes Emma Bovary so interesting? (2010-09-18)
• Poem for the weekend: “Strawberries” by Edwin Morgan (2010-09-17)
• It’s All Been Done (2010-09-16)
• An interview with Lee Child and Kate Miciak (2010-09-13)
• Oliver Sacks on Mythmaking (2010-09-11)
• Tumblng (2010-09-02)
• The High-Low Problem (2010-09-01)
• Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers (2010-08-30)
• Hemingway’s standing desk (2010-08-23)
• “Perfection Wasted” by John Updike ()
• Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book (2010-08-22)
• Fitzgerald Repackaged (2010-08-20)
• Hanging Up (2010-08-16)
• Rooting for the laundry, 109 A.D. (2010-08-13)
• Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior (2010-08-10)
• Richard Ford: “make something good” (2010-08-07)
• FontFonter ()
• Young Hemingway (2010-08-06)
• Innovation and Risk ()
• DeLillo: “The writer leads” (2010-08-04)
• A Note from Barack Obama ()
• The Sawyer Effect (2010-08-02)
• A Writer on Monday Morning (2010-07-29)
• Divers, East River, 1948 (2010-07-27)
• Gorgeous Borges (2010-07-26)
• Fitzgerald on creating characters (2010-07-19)
• Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Knew at 18 ()
• Starting Over (2010-07-16)
• How James Bond Got His Name (2010-07-13)
• Portrait: Henry James (2010-07-11)
• Losing LeBron (2010-07-09)
• Flaubert on Life and Work ()
• Circadian Novels (2010-07-07)
• R.I.P. Inkwell Bookstore (2010-07-06)
• Man Out of Time: “The Disenchanted” by Budd Schulberg (2010-06-30)
• West End Memories (continued) (2010-06-28)
• Work, work, work (2010-06-21)
• A Face Behind the Page (2010-06-16)
• West End Memories ()
• The MFA Generation (2010-06-14)
• Browning: “a few I value more” (2010-06-10)
• You never completely relax again (2010-06-08)
• Writers Unplugged (2010-06-05)
• Inventing Laurie Barber (2010-06-04)
• The Way We Virtually Live Now (2010-06-02)
• A Hangman’s Metaphysics ()
• The Pleasures of Imagination (2010-06-01)
• “Matterhorn” (2010-05-31)
• Bloggiversary (2010-05-23)
• Writing Like It’s 1999 (2010-05-21)
• The Murder Gene (2010-05-11)
• The Mystery Writer’s Dilemma (2010-05-10)
• “I have lived alone in the woods” (2010-05-08)
• A Male Jodi Picoult (2010-05-06)
• New Money (2010-05-05)
• The Price of Procrastination (2010-04-28)
• Not-So-Random House ()
• Sven Birkerts: “the Internet and the novel are opposites” (2010-04-27)
• Portrait: Philip Roth (2010-04-26)
• Novels like letters (2010-04-25)
• How Writers Write: Ian McEwan (2010-04-19)
• Tweet of the Day (2010-04-17)
• Only Disconnect (2010-04-15)
• Flickr Find of the Day (2010-04-14)
• Writing Is Play (2010-04-13)
• Nexted ()
• The Burry Principle ()
• Is an ebook still a book? (2010-04-11)
• Can a writer quit? (2010-04-09)
• Will e-novels be shorter? (2010-04-06)
• Dr. Johnson: Libraries and “the vanity of human hopes” (2010-03-31)
• The Writer-in-Chief (2010-03-30)
• Dickens’ Outlines (2010-03-29)
• An Interview (2010-03-25)
• “Wolf Hall” (2010-03-23)
• Baseball’s Yankee Problem (2010-03-18)
• The issue is inequality, not total wealth (2010-03-14)
• Hilary Mantel: “locked in competition with myself” (2010-03-13)
• A Facelift (2010-03-12)
• Done! (2010-03-09)
• Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days (2010-03-08)
• Explaining Insomnia (2010-03-02)
• Google’s Buzzbomb (2010-03-01)
• How to design a book advertisement (2010-02-27)
• There is no sleeping at the Boston Public Library (2010-02-26)
• Bill Gates on Energy (2010-02-25)
• Photographs of the Combat Zone (2010-02-24)
• The Tweeted Wisdom of Alain de Botton (2010-02-19)
• Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments (2010-02-17)
• A Lesson from Dickens (2010-02-12)
• The Perils of Advertising (2010-02-11)
• Last Words (2010-02-09)
• Stock and Flow (2010-02-05)
• The Street Photography of Jules Aarons (2010-02-02)
• The Anxiety of Finishing (2010-01-31)
• The Importance of Shipping (2010-01-28)
• “Little Dorrit”: Dickens’ Teeming World (2010-01-26)
• Adrienne Rich: “Prospective Immigrants Please Note” (2010-01-23)
• The Value of Failing (2010-01-18)
• Dickens and the Blacking Factory (2010-01-04)
• Rest and Re-creation ()
• Dickens and Me (2009-12-31)
• A friendly reviewer, at last (2009-12-28)
• Drawing Moby-Dick (2009-12-26)
• How Writers Write: Edwidge Danticat (2009-12-22)
• The View from Below: A midlist author watches the ebook wars (2009-12-20)
• “Your Whole Reading Life, Always With You” (2009-12-17)
• Dickens vs. the Snarks (2009-12-16)
• Publishing Agonistes ()
• John Irving: “A need to be alone” ()
• Maugham: “great suspicion of posterity” (2009-12-09)
• “Tamburlaine Must Die” (2009-12-04)
• Lukewarm Kindling (2009-12-01)
• Put down your Kindle and watch this ()
• As if they had been around all along (2009-11-29)
• Title Trouble (2009-11-25)
• “This Is Where I Leave You” (2009-11-20)
• Cormac McCarthy: “My Perfect Day” (2009-11-15)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Swimming under water” (2009-11-10)
• Ted Kooser: “Daddy Longlegs” (2009-11-09)
• “Productivity Stems From Passion” (2009-11-06)
• Book 3 Update: The Final Push (2009-11-05)
• Walt Whitman for Levi’s (2009-11-03)
• Financial Lives of the Poets (2009-10-30)
• “Immersive text-only experiences” ()
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is … Pippi Longstocking? (2009-10-29)
• Philip Roth on the novel’s “cultic” future (2009-10-28)
• Michael Penn’s photographs of Philadelphia ()
• A Favorite Review (2009-10-22)
• Scrapbook (2009-10-21)
• A “Strangler” Word Cloud ()
• This is your brain on e-books (2009-10-19)
• Cory Doctorow’s “Makers” Tiles ()
• “City of Thieves” (2009-10-16)
• How to Make a Movie About a Writer (2009-10-15)
• Inside “The Strangler”: Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Mob (2009-10-14)
• Updated Books Section (2009-10-09)
• Vermeer (2009-10-04)
• Eavan Boland: “Quarantine” (2009-09-27)
• Barbara Mensch’s photographs of Fulton Fish Market (2009-09-24)
• A cabin made of hours (2009-09-21)
• Biocriminology (2009-09-18)
• A Thousand Words a Day (2009-09-17)
• Throwaway novels (2009-09-13)
• Writer’s Room: W. Somerset Maugham (2009-09-11)
• Writer’s Room: Cory Doctorow (2009-09-10)
• How Writers Write: J.G. Ballard ()
• Inside “The Strangler”: The New Boston, 1963 (2009-09-08)
• William Manchester’s struggle ()
• A few links (2009-09-02)
• George Herbert: “Church Monuments” (2009-09-01)
• Henry Ford: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted” ()
• Edmund Wilson Regrets… ()
• Julia Child: “The way to a full and healthy life” (2009-08-31)
• Boston’s Wonderful/Terrible City Hall ()
• Philip Roth: “the desire to get the work right” (2009-08-28)
• Ten Views of the Combat Zone (2009-08-27)
• Wallace Stevens: “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” (2009-08-26)
• Why authors should (and shouldn’t) blog (2009-08-21)
• Philip Larkin: “This Is the First Thing” (2009-08-20)
• Book Three Update (2009-08-19)
• Barbara Mensch’s photographs of New York ()
• “No battle plan…” (2009-08-18)
• Lawrence Lessig on the Google book search settlement (2009-08-14)
• Remembering Updike the Father (2009-08-10)
• Crime novels and entertainments (2009-08-08)
• Kate’s Mystery Books closes (for now) (2009-08-02)
• Makers vs. Managers (2009-08-01)
• “Free” and the Future of Publishing (2009-07-27)
• Walter Cronkite and “The Strangler” (2009-07-20)
• The Definitive Boston Crime Novel: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (2009-07-17)
• Best Boston Movie Ever: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (2009-07-16)
• E-Books and Distracted Reading (2009-07-14)
• Why the Strangler? (2009-07-10)
• How Writers Write: Graham Greene (2009-07-08)
• A Random Walk in Boston (2009-07-06)
• Capote and Ellison: Blocked or just procrastinating? (2009-07-01)
• On Moving to a New Publisher in the UK (2009-06-29)
• Fred Wilson on Social Media ()
• How Writers Write: Philip Roth (2009-06-27)
• Publishers as booksellers? (2009-06-24)
• Richard Diebenkorn: Notes to Myself on Beginning a Painting (2009-06-23)
• Writers as Performers (2009-06-22)
• Oprah’s Mystery Reading List (2009-06-17)
• The Science of Home-Field Advantage (2009-06-15)
• Kickstarter ()
• The Breakthrough, at last (2009-06-13)
• The Economics of Dealing Crack (2009-06-12)
• Creating Writers: Do MFA Programs Produce Dull Writers? (2009-06-11)
• “The Lazarus Project” by Aleksandar Hemon (2009-06-09)
• “The Commitments” (2009-06-06)
• I Miss U: Updike Is Gone (2009-06-04)
• WriterTube: Cormac McCarthy (2009-06-01)
• Things I Love: The AlphaSmart Neo (2009-05-29)
• Writing in the Age of Distraction (2009-05-27)
• When Every Writer Is a Publisher (2009-05-26)
• Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow: Why Writers Get Stuck ()
• A Quote for the Holiday Weekend (2009-05-22)
• The Way We Write Now: Novelists and Their Blogs ()

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