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May 2026

Chapter 215: The Author As Publisher: Mike Sager
There is nothing new about writers hating publishers and because they are good with words even the immortals have had deliciously nasty things to say.
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 214: Your Story; Your Song…continued
At the end of every semester I ask my students to bring to class a piece of music that sounds the way they’d like their writing to sound.
 • Michael Shapiro
Miriam Wasser-Interview Transcript
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 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 213: On Writing From Heartbreak
Writerland is a reader-supported publication.
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 212: All Happy Families…
To borrow from the late and legendary sports writer Red Smith’s lament on being a writer: writing about families is easy…you just open a vein and bleed.
 • Michael Shapiro

April 2026

Chapter 211: A Writer’s Career Doesn’t Begin the Moment They Start Writing.”
Two turning points that forged Mohamed Choukri’s (1935-2000) career as a writer were his stint in prison in 1955 and, much later, in a psychiatric…
 • Diego Courchay
Chapter 210: On Being Vulnerable
I begin every semester by reading a paragraph from Norman Maclean’s “Young Men and Fire.” It comes midway through the book and appears out of nowhere.
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 209: Wisdom. Late, at Long Last
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the prospect of once again asking my students to take The Great Leap from filing weekly reporting letters to writing…
 • Michael Shapiro
Chapter 208: From Fact to Fiction
It had been years since I had thought about Billy Southworth and his son Billy, Jr.
 • Michael Shapiro

March 2026

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