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Writing Through Tough Times: Tips And Tricks
The question comes up a lot: What’s your favorite part of the writing process? Usually this is a multiple choice question. Is your favorite part the beginning of the story, when everything is possible? Is it the middle when things have finally begun to gel? Is it the end when all the choices have narrowed […]
Openhearted Listening To The Stories Of Others, Including Victorian Women Artists
Openhearted Listening To The Stories Of Others, Including Victorian Women Artists One of my favorite writers, Brené Brown, endorses what she calls “openhearted living.” When I hear that phrase, I envision spreading my arms and taking in what is present around me, fearlessly and with curiosity. This stance isn’t second nature. I grew up in […]
Interview with Sharon Kirsch, author of The Smallest Objective
Sharon Kirsch’s new book, The Smallest Objective, is both topical and universal. This intriguing narrative nonfiction examines the complexities of lives lived: a personal and literal spring-cleaning—the need to sift, take stock and filter for the important things; our concern for senior members of our family, and the consolation offered by staying close to loved ones […]
Interview with Sarah Relyea, Author of Playground Zero
PLAYGROUND ZERO, Sarah Relyea’s debut novel, is a coming-of-age story set in Berkeley in the late 1960s. “Like a trip through the Looking Glass, Sarah Relyea’s engrossing debut novel takes you by the hand back to the sixties, where social rules were being challenged and political upheaval was the norm. Relyea tells the absorbing story of […]
What Is Poetry? Review of TO THE MAN IN THE RED SUIT by Christina Fulton
To the Man in the Red Suit by Christina Fulton Review by Dr. Maureen Goldstein What is poetry? This age-old question spans from the Ancients to the millennium, and in most cases, the answers will vary according to the literary period. Poetry may convey emotions/attitudes on any given subject ranging from philosophy, social consciousness, to […]
Jane Austen and the Zombie Apocalypse
At one point in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the heroine Anne Elliot takes it on herself to recommend some prose reading to an acquaintance who, recently bereaved, is exacerbating his depression with too much poetry. On her list are ‘such works of our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of […]
On Writing, by Janet Todd
I always wanted to write fiction. Over the years I started several novels—occasionally I even finished them. In subject they ranged from expatriate life in post-independence Ghana to a fictionalised biography of Mary Wollstonecraft’s unhappy sister. (Most attempts have gone out in black bin bags.) I had a family to support and it’s a lot easier […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susie Orman Schnall
By Susie Orman Schnall, author of We Came Here to Shine We Came Here to Shine is uplifting historical fiction featuring two bold and ambitious women who navigate a world of possibility and find out what they’re truly made of during a glorious summer of spectacle and potential… Gorgeous Vivi is the star of the […]
One True Sentence: How My Book Came to Be
By Marianne Ingheim I’d been trying to write a book for 10 years. First it was a novel, loosely based on stories I’d heard from my mother and grandmother. Then I decided I needed to tell the truth, so I started writing a memoir. I took classes, I read how-to books. I was going to […]
Interview with Maggie Humm
Interview with Maggie Humm, author of Talland House Talland House takes Lily Briscoe the artist character from the confines of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Set between 1900 and 1919 in picturesque Cornwall and war-blasted London, the novel tells Lily’s emotional journey in becoming a professional artist: her love-life, mourning her dead mother, as a […]
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