Real Isn't How You Are Made. It's A Thing That Happens To You.

Lit Salon on the question of what makes for "real" writing + the tendency to "covet" the pain of the writing life + the enlivening experience of laboring for love & art

Dear Jeannine,

I’m ashamed, really, to even ask this question. It makes me sound like an asshole. And maybe I am an asshole. In fact, I am for sure at least a little bit of an asshole. But since this is anonymous, I figure, why not just get this off my chest and see what you think about it, since I’ve been appreciating your answers to other letter writer…