Economy
Paying Rent With Words
Departing from a focus on pure craft, more schools are helping students learn how to turn a profit.
“If you’re already worried about publishing, you’re not serious,” sniffed my writing professor—whose own work was regularly featured in The Paris Review and Harper’s.
Finishing my graduate creative writing degree in the 1980s, I didn’t even know how to craft a cover letter to submit pages I’d spent two years perfecting. Another professor I hounded helped me land an assistant job at a magazine, which led to my freelance journalism career.