The Protagonist: Keara Driscoll Serves up Pork and Poetry in Brooklyn

Written by Alissa Fleck on December 23, 2012. Posted in NY Press Exclusive

Occasionally The Protagonist briefly profiles the work and life of a local artist; this is one of those times. Brooklynite Keara Driscoll waitresses by day and writes poetry…well, whenever she has a spare moment to jot down her thoughts on the scrap of paper she keeps in her pocket. Driscoll has been writing poetry in
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The Protagonist: So You Want to Be a Novelist?

Written by NY Press on November 10, 2012. Posted in Books, NY Press Exclusive

Karolina Waclawiak decided she was going to leave her Columbia University MFA with a novel. Waclawiak, who was born in Poland but had been living in Los Angeles, decided she needed to “work out [her] issues in an immigrant novel.” She began querying agents at the end of her MFA program, but after 25 unsuccessful
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