Not only did Ms. Woolf want women to have rooms of their own, she advised them to “slay the angel in the house” if someone wanted to write. She urged women to make time for their work even if it meant being bad wives...
Read MoreIf you’re stuck, clean your desk. I like to throw away every precious note and scrap of paper w/out glancing at it. The more valuable I believe it is, the faster it gets tossed. I figure I’m stuck for a reason and...
Read MoreKarl Lagerfeld, the designer, said that the reason he works so hard is to prove to others that they’re useless. He does work hard, too. Always sketching and changing his mind and ordering people around. Yet the people who...
Read More“I had a sense that a voice existed that needed expression, that there was a voice that wasn’t being voiced.” As some of you know, I like to read plays. A gambling buddy of mine (horses only, we’re not...
Read MoreWhen “Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs” was almost ready to go into copy-editing, I hired a two-person publicity agency in San Diego to help generate some interest. One of the things Barb and Sarah did is make me a...
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