David Rakoff: Why I Write (And Why It Only Gets Harder)

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Uploaded by on Mar 2, 2011

When I read David Rakoff's latest book, Half Empty, perhaps no passage stood out quite like the author's description of a typical day's writing. Suffice to say, it's not a vocational endorsement that MFA programs will be citing in promotional brochures anytime soon.

A month or so later, during Wordstock, Rakoff sat down to talk. My first question arose naturally enough: Why do you write?

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  • @paradiddle1 It also makes the crappiness and extensive amount of revisions I have to make to each blog post before publishing somewhat less depressing!

  • Totally awesome! As if we needed to hear that! Damn, but at least we can see the process is the same for a great writer like Rakoff. This makes my current draft of shit a bit more tolerable. Thanks for this!

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