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June 14th, 2017 • Featured
’Payload’: An Original Short Story By Novelist Jess Walter

Note: This original short story by author and former journalist Jess Walter comes as part of Quill’s “Journalists Not Being Journalists” series, encouraging creative pursuits by journalists outside the daily deadline. Walter first read it in April at the Pie & Whiskey event during the annual Get Lit Festival in Spokane, Washington.

June 14th, 2017 • Quill Archives
Should I Go Into Journalism, Mr. Former Journalist And Successful Novelist?

When I give readings or lectures at colleges, after all the boring “future of the novel” talk, there’s always one student who looks around sheepishly and asks: “Would you go into journalism today?” I have been a novelist for almost 20 years, but I always credit my journalism background for my discipline, for my innate curiosity, for my write-about-anything chops.

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