Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Donna Hermans
Donna Hemans interviews Plum, who, in her novel, Tea by the Sea, spends seventeen years searching the daughter taken from her at birth. Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Plum Valentine. I live in Brooklyn with my husband and two daughters, and work as a lab technologist. Tell us a little about […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Mary Helen Fein
Conversation Helen Breakstone, Sixteen-year-old heroine of “Stitching a Life,” and author Mary Helen Fein Helen and I met at Katz’s Deli on Houston Street in New York’s Lower East Side. Turned out we both love Pastrami sandwiches, and of course Katz’s is the best. It was easy to spot her in her long skirt and […]
Happiness in the Time of Covid-19, Climate Change, Violent White Supremacy, etc.
Perhaps surprisingly, a season of unrelentingly grim news is the perfect time for a serious discussion of both personal and collective happiness. That is because genuine happiness is the opposite of a self-indulgent quest for pleasure. Rather, deep inner happiness leads to thriving, performing at our best, and greater compassion – along with a much-needed […]
AREN’T YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE? Excerpt
Kari Lizer is a gifted comedic storyteller. She is an Emmy-nominated, co-executive producer and writer for Will & Grace and creator of the award-winning show, The New Adventures of Old Christine, which was based on her life as a single working mother raising three kids. Lizer recently signed with ABC for her new comedy series, […]
The Antidote for Us Versus Them
Hoax! On my screen was what looked like a painted daguerreotype family portrait from an era when people lived in hand-hewn log cabins, raised shoats, and wore dresses sewn from potato sacks, but what made this portrait surely a work of trickery was the color of the complexion of five family members: bright, shocking, no-doubt-about-it […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Angela Barton
Angela Barton interviews her character Arlette Blaise, the main character of her novel ARLETTE’S STORY. Arlette’s story takes place in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane during WWII. The SS Panzer Division Das Reich, destroyed it during WWII and today it is preserved In a Ruined State. (find out more here) About Arlette’s Story: One woman’s struggle […]
When Writing Flows (Or Doesn’t!) by Phaedra Patrick
Before I got a publishing deal for my novels, I had an image in my head of what writers did all day and how they looked. They wore a satin robe, drank copious amounts of wine and often smoked long slim cigarettes. They lived in their heads, in a kind of serene wonderland where magical […]
Unexpected Friendship: Barbara Monier
In my fourth novel, The Rocky Orchard, the bulk of the book centers around the unlikely friendship between two women – one young and the other elderly. The book’s lead character Mazie stands on the porch of her family’s second home in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania the morning after she has arrived there. Awash […]
I Can’t Breathe…
Hendrika de Vries is the author of When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew: a memoir about her childhood in Nazi-occupied WWII Amsterdam. “I can’t breathe…” “I can’t breathe” whispered George Floyd as a white man in authority put his knee on his neck and crushed him to death. “I can’t breathe” […]
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo
JoAnn Wypijewski’s book What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority & the Mess of Life is just out from Verso. Maybe there is no good time to put out a collection, but this seems to be the worst of times—unless one has been writing about contagion, public health, […]
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