Over the early days of December 2023, a tight-knit, online community of authors was thrown into chaos after it was revealed that one among them was sabotaging the others on Goodreads. On December 5th, sci-fi author and member of the aforementioned community, Xiran Jay Zhao, tweeted, “If you as a debut author are going to … Continue reading How Goodreads Lost Community Trust to Review Bombing
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The Strange Rise of the Writers’ Space
This New Yorker piece has an interesting take on what writers' spaces are all about: "As with the gym, at the writers’ space you feel less ridiculous spending your time on an activity with uncertain and elusive benefits: everyone else is doing it, too. It’s a cocoon that protects its inhabitants from a world where most … Continue reading The Strange Rise of the Writers’ Space
