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Friday Finds for Writers

by on Friday, March 22, 2013 (3) Comments

Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to read over the weekend.

  • Making the rounds this week: how The New Yorker ended up rejecting one of its own stories.
  • On literary shindigs, author photos, and Yaddo rejections – a post by Jami Attenberg.
  • One writer shares “5 Unexpected Lessons from Inside the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.”
  • Marisa Silver, on being a “California Writer.”
  • Behind the scenes at Girl Talk, a wonderful poetry reading organized each year by Diane Lockward.

    • Have a great weekend, everyone. See you back here on Monday.

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    Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress: My “Well Versed” Debut

    by on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 (4) Comments

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    Two weeks ago, I attended a panel event, held at the Center for Jewish History here in Manhattan, that helped launch a new book, Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide. And last Friday, my account of that event was posted on the “Well Versed” blog of The Jewish Week, a New York-based newspaper that I subscribe to.

    It’s my debut post for Well Versed, and I hope it signals many to come–and perhaps even some bylines within the paper itself. We shall see.

    Meantime, here’s the opening of the post:

    Definitions can be tricky. Just try to find agreement on what qualifies (or not) as “Jewish literature.”
    Perhaps equally arguable: any effort to define “Holocaust literature.”

    In their new book, “Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide” (Brandeis University Press), David Roskies and Naomi Diamant propose some striking new terms.

    Intrigued? Please keep reading!

    (cross-posted on My Machberet)

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    Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress: Gone Readin’

    by on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 (6) Comments

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    Last night I returned from a few fabulous days in the Rochester area. There’s so much to do as I return to the day job this morning, so for the moment, I’ll simply thank the organizers, hosts, attendees, and various friends (you know who you are) who made my appearances at the JCC Lane Dworkin Rochester Jewish Book Festival and SUNY Geneseo (pictured above) so warm, special, and memorable.

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    Friday Finds for Writers

    by on Friday, October 26, 2012 (2) Comments

    The weekly collection of writing-related resources, news, and reflections to read over the weekend.

  • To begin: As you may have noticed, I’m something of a dash fan (even if I have to disguise the dash as a hyphen sometimes for text-only newsletters that don’t absorb the auto-corrected dash all that well). Which is all a way of saying that I loved Ben Yagoda’s “Mad Dash” column for NYTimes.com this week.
  • “How NOT to Put Together a Short-story Collection,” by Amber Sparks.
  • Joel Friedlander’s useful “Twitter for the Absolutely Terrified Newbie Author.”
  • Clear-eyed post on “the economics of self-publishing,” with a detailed case example, from Anne Trubek.
  • If you’re in the Boston area, I hope you’re going to be able to enjoy the Boston Book Festival this weekend. Wish that I could be there with you.

    • Have a great weekend, all. See you back here on Monday.

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    Friday Finds for Writers

    by on Friday, October 05, 2012 (0) Comments

    The weekly collection of writing-related resources, news, and reflections to read over the weekend.

  • First up: This Shelf Awareness piece throws a lot of light on how Leslie Brody’s new book, The Last Kiss, took form. Note the roles of bookstore events, a writing workshop, and those ever-powerful prompts.
  • And speaking of memoir: “Your Memoir Is Too Much About You,” says Ethan Gilsdorf.
  • Pretty funny piece by Shalom Auslander. Here’s a taste: “In the first place, it is true that I turned 40 this year, and it is equally true that, for the 40th time, my writing did not make it into the New Yorker’s ‘Forty Under Forty’ issue, or Granta’s ‘Forty Under Forty’ issue, or the LA Times’s ‘Forty Faces Under Forty’ issue, or the Guardian’s annual ‘Forty American Writers Under Forty to Watch’, or even McSweeney’s ‘Forty Writers Under Forty Who Live Near Us in Brooklyn and We Hang Out With Quite a Bit or At Least Would Like To’.”
  • Alas, it’s unlikely that I’ll make it to the South Dakota Festival of Books anytime soon, but David Abrams’s lovely account makes me feel almost as if I was right there with him this year.
  • Interesting account of one professor’s foray into an online creative-writing course–as a student–with the University of Phoenix.

    • Have a great weekend, all. See you back here on Monday!

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