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Publish it Forward: On Giving and Receiving in Literary Life
Since 2012, GrubStreet's NEA-funded Publish It Forward series has had seven lectures attended by over 2,000 people. Previous speakers have included Amanda Palmer, Susan Orlean, and Richard Nash. Now we're thrilled to host Matthew Battles, Associate Director of metaLAB at Harvard, for a fascinating look into the new "gift economy." What does the “gift economy” mean for writers, and why does it seem to involve more giving than receiving? The pressure to make one's work open and free is felt everywhere: budding journalists are asked to appear on the web sites of major magazines…
Find out more »Publish it Forward: On Giving and Receiving in Literary Life
Since 2012, GrubStreet's NEA-funded Publish It Forward series has had seven lectures attended by over 2,000 people. Previous speakers have included Amanda Palmer, Susan Orlean, and Richard Nash. Now we're thrilled to host Matthew Battles, Associate Director of metaLAB at Harvard, for a fascinating look into the new "gift economy." What does the “gift economy” mean for writers, and why does it seem to involve more giving than receiving? The pressure to make one's work open and free is felt everywhere: budding journalists are asked to appear on the web sites of major magazines…
Find out more »Publish it Forward: On Giving and Receiving in Literary Life
Since 2012, GrubStreet's NEA-funded Publish It Forward series has had seven lectures attended by over 2,000 people. Previous speakers have included Amanda Palmer, Susan Orlean, and Richard Nash. Now we're thrilled to host Matthew Battles, Associate Director of metaLAB at Harvard, for a fascinating look into the new "gift economy." What does the “gift economy” mean for writers, and why does it seem to involve more giving than receiving? The pressure to make one's work open and free is felt everywhere: budding journalists are asked to appear on the web sites of major magazines…
Find out more »Publish it Forward: On Giving and Receiving in Literary Life
Since 2012, GrubStreet's NEA-funded Publish It Forward series has had seven lectures attended by over 2,000 people. Previous speakers have included Amanda Palmer, Susan Orlean, and Richard Nash. Now we're thrilled to host Matthew Battles, Associate Director of metaLAB at Harvard, for a fascinating look into the new "gift economy." What does the “gift economy” mean for writers, and why does it seem to involve more giving than receiving? The pressure to make one's work open and free is felt everywhere: budding journalists are asked to appear on the web sites of major magazines…
Find out more »In Conversation: Author ALLEGRA GOODMAN
Best-selling author ALLEGRA GOODMAN talks about her latest book, The Chalk Artist, and shares her secrets on writing and her passions with GrubStreet Writer's Room author KAREN LENAR WINN. ALLEGRA GOODMAN's novels include Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award finalist). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares and has been anthologized in The O.HenryAwards and Best American Short Stories. She has written two collections of short stories, The Family Markowitz and Total Immersionand a novel for younger readers, The Other Side of…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.