I just posted a link down under writerly sites to Wordstock’s site: Richard Ford reading John Cheever’s Reunions. What a perfect example of “showing, not telling.”
The New Yorker rejected the short story about Pearlie twice before Andrew Sean Greer shelved it. He wrote The Confessions of Max Tivoli before blowing the dust off Pearlie again.
A few of my colleagues and I have begun a project in which we will thoroughly research the options that serious fiction writers have for getting their books to print. What is the future of publishing?
Yes, believe it or not, I do still read outside of contest submissions, manuscripts I am evaluating, and texts I am editing/promoting/creating. I read as we all do, for pleasure, to improve my own writing, and to inform myself.