A Writer's Legacy: The Mission Behind the Peabody Reader and The Legacy Series The life of a small press writer can be difficult. Many writers can go their whole lives publishing only with small presses only to watch them fold and their work sit in langor out of print for years or maybe forever. LR: Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Richard Peabody, Grace Cavalieri "When we launched [The Peabody Reader] to a packed house at that year’s AWP conference, ASP co-founder James J. Patterson asked everyone in the room whose career had been assisted in some way by Richard to raise their hand. In … [Read more...]