Where Have All the Dollars Gone?
Lying sleepless in my sister’s old bed in her room and staring at the dark ceiling, I quickly realized how far I’d fallen. In the scheme of things, what’s one more writer falling from the sky and landing where there’s food and shelter? Still, living in New York City had become part of my identity. I felt exiled from the better part of myself, wondering where I went wrong.
—“Money Is Random”
New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they publish throughout the issue cycle.
First Person
The Trouble with Being an Entrepreneur by Martha Nichols
Theme for this Issue
Money Is Random by Steve Adams
What If You’re Not Shakespeare or Jay-Z? by John Vogel
What Writers Say About Getting Paid by Frits Ahlefeldt and Various Authors
I’m a Blogger—Deal with It by Bianca Garcia
Rich Writers vs. the Critics—and Me by Anna Coppola
Fiction
Flight Plan by Katie Cortese
Trends and Reviews
"Women and Power" in the NYT Book Review by Lorraine Berry and Martha Nichols
Happy Twentieth Birthday, "Bird by Bird" by Kathy Curto
Columns
Three Money Lessons for Starry-Eyed Authors by David Biddle
Would I Write “The Godfather” for Money? by Emily Toth
TW Reading Series
Hadestown by Kim Triedman
A Guy in a Metal Suicide-Box by William Least Heat-Moon
Why I Write
No Matter What It Takes by Terry Persun
Interviews
Caitlin Moran: “You Just Can’t Argue with Cool” by Lorraine Berry
Personal Stories
So, Is Writing Therapy? by Elizabeth Marcus
Gillian Flynn Helped Me Survive My First Election by Fran Cronin
Poetry
Susan Nisenbaum Becker: Three Poems by Susan Nisenbaum Becker
Art
Entrepreneurs Under the Water by Aurora Chisté
Artwork in this Issue
Featured Artist: Aurora Chisté
- Fall 2014 cover
- "The Trouble with Being an Entrepreneur"
- "Entrepreneurs Under the Water" (image essay)
Featured Artist: Frits Ahlefeldt
- "What Writers Say About Getting Paid" (cartoon feature)
