How to Deal with the Bad Review Blues

Diane Vanaskie Mulligan
5 min readApr 6, 2019
Sometimes it helps to take the long view…

As my friends know, I am pretty sure Josh Ritter is my celebrity soul mate. In my humble opinion, he is the best lyricist of my generation. He’s amazing and if you’ve never heard of him, definitely check him out.

A number of years ago now, when his album “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter” was released, I read an interview in which the interviewer asked him if he worried about upsetting his…

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Diane Vanaskie Mulligan

novelist, teacher, sourdough enthusiast, dog-lover, folkie and a whole bunch of other things, too.