Toll was inspired by a writer named tom spanbower, who taught at the center for fiction in New York City. He says he learned about gordon lish's philosophy of writing and how to write short stories. Toll: "He told me the thing that i could do that set me apart"
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?”
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