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Caveat Lector
Yesterday the carpet cleaners came. In our household, this means picking up the piles of books, laundry too dirty to put back in the drawer but not dirty enough for the laundry basket, and various not-yet-read magazines in order to … Continue reading
Posted in community, reading, teaching, writing
Tagged Alison Presley, Lev Grossman, Samuel Beckett, Writers@Work
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Only Connect
I’m in a scattershot mood this morning, so today’s post will be rather scattershot. First, I’d like to give a shout-out to three colleagues with recently published books: Lana Dalberg, BIRTHING GOD Judith Newton, TASTING HOME Monica Wesolowska, HOLDING SILVAN … Continue reading
Posted in community, craft, faith, reading, teaching, writing
Tagged Birthing God, cell phone, cell phones, checking email, depression, email, Holding Silvan, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, Judith Newton, Lana Dalberg, Lindsey Crittenden, Monica Wesolowska, smart phones, Stinson Beach, Tasting Home, teacher/student connection, The Water Will Hold You
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What I Did For Love
A scary number of years ago, I worked on a literary magazine in New York City. Turnstile was a labor of love, a nonprofit corporation with a volunteer staff. Nine of us, seven of whom worked together for the same … Continue reading
Branding
Yesterday over lunch at the Grotto, where I’m subletting office space, another writer (also finishing up her novel) and I got on the topic of branding. You know, the “author brand.” I resisted the first time I heard the phrase, … Continue reading
Listening, Reading, Listening
Write a blog long enough, and you start to repeat yourself. I started this blog in April 2011 and have written about silence a few times since then. As I sit down this morning to write the newest post, silence … Continue reading
Posted in community, prayer, reading
Tagged Advent, Billy Don't Be A Hero, Bishop's Ranch, Chaim Potok, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Language Arts, Lindsey Crittenden, middle school, My Darling My Hamburger, My Name Is Asher Lev, reading, retreats, Seasons in the Sun, silence, silent retreats, The Outsiders
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The Next Big Thing: Her Current Project
Today I’m happy to host my friend and colleague Monica Wesolowska on this blog. Her answers show her gift for startling imagery, emotional acuity, and just darned good writing. Her book, Holding Silvan (publication March 2013), is gorgeous. Also, today, … Continue reading
Posted in agents, community, craft, writing, writing groups
Tagged agent persistence, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Arroyo Literary Review, book titles, death, death of a child, Elizabeth McCracken, Genevieve Jurgensen, grief, Hawthorne Books, Holding Silvan, Isabel Allende, letting a child die, loss of children, medical complications during childbirth, medical ethics, memoir, Monica Wesolowska, naming children, Paula, Peggy Orenstein, Pisgah Review, Romeo and Juliet, story submissions, talking about death, The Disappearance, Watiting for Daisy
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Playtime
I read with interest Gina Gionfriddo’s article in last Sunday’s New York Times about her new play’s “inadvertent homage” to Wendy Wasserstein’s Heidi Chronicles. Gionfriddo’s play Rapture, Blister, Burn—which opened this week at Playwrights Horizons, the same theater where Heidi … Continue reading
Posted in community, craft, reading, writing
Tagged Lindsey Crittenden, The Water Will Hold You, Jane Eyre, friendship, Gina Gionfriddo, Rapture, Blister, Burn, Wendy Wasserstein, Heidi Chronicles, plays, playwriting, playwrights, Playwrights Horizon, New York Times, Arts & Leisure, melancholic temperment, volleyball, Heidi Holland, Berkeley Rep, betrayal, elementary school, Christopher Isherwood, Amy Herzog, Stephen Karam, narrative arc, unpredictable climax
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