From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Muddled Marketing

March 5, 2009

When writing articles for trade publications, I spend almost implausible amounts of time on the phone trying to contact marketing managers. Because of the nature of trade publications, marketing managers are always my first contact. They control the advertising dollars, after all, so they are the names magazines tend to keep on file.
At the moment [...]

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Updike and Cheever

March 2, 2009

In Updike’s finer moments he speaks in poetry, casually turning phrases that would take us lesser writers hours of pencil-suckling.

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