The Scratch Interview: Kim Cross
“Freelance rates, by the way, haven't gone up since 1985. That's when magazines started paying $2 a word.”
The Scratch Interview: Lydia Kiesling
"I've found I'm not making big progress on fiction unless I go away from my house and say, ‘I am now going into isolation.'"
Colette Shade on Y2K and the Limits of a Millennial Writing Career: The Scratch Interview
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
Angela Garbes on Money, Memoir, and Elastic-Waist Pants: The Scratch Interview
“Anything that I spend my money on is better than cocaine.”