Last year mustered in a new president, a sad economy, and plenty of unemployed people.
As a writer, I'm self-employed and living creatively close to the poverty line. The idealistic days of soulful writers in Parisian garrets, swigging cheap wine and pounding out the Great American Novel are gone with Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
Modern writers once worried people would stop reading altogether. The success of Harry Potter defied that theory. The public willingly paid money…
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