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October 21, 2008

Candy Pratts Price: ‘The Hours Are Long, the Glamour Is Big, and the Demand Is Large’

The Vogue creative director on the unglamorous hours behind fashion's most glamorous world -- and what the job actually demands.

October 3, 2008

The creators of the library-set webcomic on leaving day jobs behind, building a web audience, and the promotional hustle required to survive.

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September 3, 2008

The debut novelist on writing a satirical insider account of political fundraising -- and why fiction was the right form for the story.

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August 28, 2008

The science writer on the curious books she can't stop writing -- and how she turned magazine assignments into a publishing franchise.

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August 15, 2008

The veteran TV critic on the leap from column inches to the open web -- and what gets lost and gained in the transition.

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August 15, 2008

The longtime newspaper television critic on why he left print behind -- and what it took to build a searchable archive of TV history online.

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August 6, 2008

The young editor in chief on the challenge of evolving a trade publication's print identity while building its digital presence from scratch.

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July 30, 2008

The editor on building a publication so immersive and well-reported that readers plan their lives around it.

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July 21, 2008

The auto columnist on how he went from knowing nothing about cars to being paid to drive them -- and what the beat actually requires.

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July 15, 2008

The agent who specializes in ghostwriters on what separates a great behind-the-scenes writer from a merely adequate one.

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