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Inside the literary world, the question around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either authors should be paid for everything they actually or authors should just pay their dues and matter themselves blessed to be printed. You must never quit your entire day job, but your ultimate goal ought to be to quit your entire day job. It's an countless, confusing, and often controversial discussion that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Nothing, Manjula Martin has obtained interviews and essays from proven and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people generate profits? As contributors including Jonathan Franzen, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Nick Hornby, Susan Orlean, Alexander Chee, Daniel Jose Older, Jennifer Weiner, and Yiyun Li candidly and psychologically discuss money, MFA programs, teaching fellowships, finally getting printed, and what success really means to them, Nothing truthfully addresses the tensions between writing and money, work and life, books and commerce. The effect is an entertaining and inspiring reserve that helps listeners and authors know very well what it's really like to make art work in a world that works on money - and just why it matters.
