October 1998

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Features
What do agents want?
By Nancy Love
Matters of Fact: Fiction writers as researchers
By Sharon Oard Warner
A conversatin with Wally Lamb
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
Rewriting
By Lucian K. Truscott IV
The maker's eye
By Donald M. Murray
A matter of character
By Maynard Allington
Departments
Roving editor
Off the cuff
"I wish I had an Editor..."
By Dee George
They say
Letters to the editor
From the editor
The rostrum
What makes a good poetry workshop?
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman, Eve Sutton
The writer's library
Market newsletter
Prize offers
Where to sell manuscripts
Fiction: General-Interest Magazines; Literary Magazines; Syndicates
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