Month: August 2012

(The following was originally written for a Writer’s Digest Guide to Literary Agents Blog.  It was never used, and I’ve adapted it for my own blog.)   While in graduate school for an MFA, I wrote a work of nonfiction.  […]

I recently read a Malcolm Gladwell piece in the New Yorker about Alberto Salazar. It has to be one of Gladwell’s finest essays—more elegant than usual, more poignant. Salazar, the famous distance runner, tolerated incredible physical discomfort in his quest […]