Writerland

September 2025

Chapter 187: Matt Salinger on Dealing With J.D. Salinger’s Unpublished Work

Inheritances come in many forms, from the stately to the symbolic, along with every shape of heirloom that accumulates over a lifetime –I’m thinking of…

Sep 26 • 

Diego Courchay

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Chapter 186: Food, Glorious Food

There are stories writers should write, typically when an employer or editor promising a pay day wants them.

Sep 19 • 

Michael Shapiro

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Chapter 185: Lost, Yet Hoping to be Found

Writers are vexed for reasons so familiar that there is little need to enumerate them.

Sep 11 • 

Michael Shapiro

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Chapter 184: Long Ago and Like Yesterday, Too

It's good to be back. It is also good to have had what all writers need but which we too seldom are allowed, or allow ourselves: time to step away and…

Sep 5 • 

Michael Shapiro

May 2025

Chapter 183: The Best of Us

My students have graduated and dispersed and I am kicking myself for sending them off without telling them about one of the most profound experiences…

May 30 • 

Michael Shapiro

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Chapter 182: Places Read, Places Traveled

A series of winding roads through the mountains descended into a canyon, with a river running along its bottom.

May 16 • 

Diego Courchay

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Chapter 181: Had I Only Known

An anxious email landed in my inbox the day after my students’ book went on sale earlier this week.

May 9 • 

Michael Shapiro

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Chapter 180: Limbo, or Between Stories

And so you have written.

May 2 • 

Michael Shapiro

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April 2025