Unlike a Rolling Stone

www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/05/04/history/post-perspective/great-gatsby-fitzgerald.html

Any writer published in the Post during the 1920s would have felt that he or she had ‘arrived.’ No other magazine offered such a large audience—2.5 million readers—or such large payments. Even though he was still an unproven author, Fitzgerald received $400 for his first story. Within a year, the editors had increased his fee to $500. By 1929, they were paying him $4,000 for every story, which would be, roughly, $54,000 today. He began to live extravagantly, spending money as if it would always come as quickly and as easily.

 

That salary had to drop after 1929. With the stock market crash and the depression, I imagine that was the high-water mark. But damn impressive nonetheless. What was the average income in in 1929, compared to $54,000 a story? Wow.

I just did a freelance story (1,500-2,000 words) for $120 bucks. Probably worked out to $30 an hour.

 

You're fast!

 

I was getting $1 a word from Washingtonian a few years ago. That Rolling Stone rate is pitiful.

 

The U.S. Girls, Key!, Soccer Mommy, Maxokream and Serpentwithfeet thank you.

The Best Albums of 2018—So Far

 

Wait til the end of the year. The best of albums and songs will largely be hip hop and rap.

 

And Alabama Shakes if it puts out an album. Rolling Stone loves them.

 

This is what the first result on Google image search on serpentwithfeet gives you. Yeah no thanks

 

TTIWWP