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Benjamin Anastas teaches literature at Bennington College and is the author of Too Good to Be True.

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Twitter Lessons Learned

#Shutdown

Writers really shouldn’t be on Twitter. Here’s what novelist Benjamin Anastas took away from his 508 days of tweeting.

Benjamin Anastas | Published Jul 09, 2013

Salman Rushdie, Get Off Twitter!

#Enough

Writer Benjamin Anastas has had enough with 140-character bursts, and Rushdie's mourning for Whitney Houston was the last straw.

Benjamin Anastas | Published Jul 08, 2013

Daddy, Are You Always Broke?

Down and Out

<p>For a bankrupt writer and journalist, a visit from his son means a visit to the Coinstar machine just so he can feed him. An excerpt from Benjamin Anastas’ new memoir, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Too-Good-Be-True-Memoir/dp/0547913990/" target="_blank">Too Good to Be True</a></i>, about trying to keep it all together.</p>

Benjamin Anastas | Published Oct 15, 2012

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