Readings, Rated
Jameson FTW
Literago.org high-fives A.D. Jameson (and recommends you read his entire piece — posted at BIG OTHER, hotlinked below):
I would like to make more money. I’d like to be able to sell my writing. And I want a job that I don’t detest, and that doesn’t make me too exhausted or bitter to then not be able to write. I want to be able to get health care if/when I get sick … If I want to buy something reasonable, I want to be able to do that, too. And I’d like for my work to be available to others—so that if someone wants to buy it, or otherwise get it, they’ll be able to. Money is a means to all these ends.
But not the only means … What I really want, I think, is to be supported: by myself, but also by my culture …