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Wannabe Writers Everywhere: Get Off My Turf!

  Warning: This is a rant. Almost every Twitter profile carries the word “writer” in the bio section. Why? Because it’s so easy being a writer. I assume the mental dialogue of such people runs something like this: All you have to do is, well, write. How hard could it be, right? Wrong. While it seems pertinent to mention the years I’ve spent working on…

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Rare 1930 Video Interview With Arthur Conan Doyle

People ask me, will I write any more Sherlock Holmes stories and I certainly don’t think it’s at all probable. But as I grow older, the psychic subject always grows in intensity and one becomes more earnest upon it, and I should think that my few remaining years will be probably devoted much more in that direction than in the direction of literature. My principal…