In more recent years, the go-to option for an aspiring writer has been starting a newsletter of her own, often on Substack, a digital platform that launched in 2017 to allow writers to charge money for their writing.
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Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
26 Oct. 2026
Fashionable gatherings were peppered with the prose of neoclassical writers and Romantic poets.
But as reporters from across the nation showed up to cover Wednesday's rally and meet, Sarah was no longer feeling quite so isolated.
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Matt Calkins OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2026
Rubio told reporters Wednesday that decisions regarding Ukraine’s access to Starlink were up to its parent company SpaceX and Musk, not the White House.
From the earliest days of his film career, fan magazines and movie columnists fixed on the unconventionality of Astaire's image.
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David Hajdu,
Vanity Fair,
20 Oct. 2026
Times columnists Gustavo Arellano, Steve Lopez and Lorraine Ali are chatting about Tuesday night’s Los Angeles mayoral debate between Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman.
Now that those demographics are changing and there are more non-white authors getting book deals and winning awards, there’s an emerging resentment, especially on social media.
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T.M. Brown,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2026
The new figure is a sharper downgrade than the authors’ earlier Hoover analysis.
Some 104,643 defective pens were returned in the first 8 months of sales.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Oct. 2026
Rug Island — named after a season two episode where the characters use their imagination to create an island from a rug, throw cushions and colored pens — comes on a green and orange LP.
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