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Stuart Ross
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Stuart Ross
By asking him the best way to congratulate him! Thank you!
(Also, bribing the judges is a sweet, indirect way to offer congratulations.)
(Also, bribing the judges is a sweet, indirect way to offer congratulations.)
Stuart Ross
Vladimir and Estragon. I can think of no other fictional couples.
Stuart Ross
Read ten or twenty or thirty times more than you write. Read very broadly. Think of the blank page as a laboratory, and don't worry about finding your "voice." But if you do think you've found your "voice," do everything possible to undercut it.
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I meant "undercut" in the sense of "undermine." I don't think any of us have one "voice." I think that if we become comfortable/complacent in our writ
I meant "undercut" in the sense of "undermine." I don't think any of us have one "voice." I think that if we become comfortable/complacent in our writing, it's time to challenge ourselves, shake things up, and sabotage our own assumptions.
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Nov 26, 2015 05:49PM · flag
Nov 26, 2015 05:49PM · flag
Stuart Ross
My most recent book is Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer (Anvil Press, 2015). It's a follow-up to the 2005 book Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Both books gather together my columns and short articles and rants about life in the world of small-press or micro-press publishing. The first volume was very well-received and widely reviewed, so my publisher and I thought it was time for another installment.
Stuart Ross
Business attire = bathrobe.
Stuart Ross
3 poetry collections, 3 novels, a collaborative book-length poem, a collaborative poetry sequence, a book of essays, a memoir, a translation, and some collaborations with visual artists.
Stuart Ross
A lot of things inspire me, but most of all reading the works of exciting, adventurous, fearless, confusing authors.
Stuart Ross
I don't believe in writer's block.
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