Finds for Writers
Most Fridays the Practicing Writing blog shares writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend. But it’s been an excruciating week for so many of us. And frankly, I’ve paid next-to-no attention to garden-variety news from the writing and publishing spheres.
On Wednesday, however, I received an email from Facing History and Ourselves, a Boston-based global nonprofit organization that I’ve admired for many years. The email introduced a “mini-lesson” titled “Processing Attacks in Israel and the Outbreak of War in the Region.”
The resource isn’t perfect. (What resource is?) But one of its segments impressed me as something that, though intended for educators and students, could be clarifying for writers as well, in our work and in the rest of our lives. It’s a section titled “Avoiding Antisemitic and Islamophobic Tropes in Discussing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”
- New documentary streaming on PBS: “Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page” (I watched it last weekend).
- Happening Friday, January 22: a free literary workshop on “mastering magazine submissions,” led by John Sibley Williams.
- Jane Friedman has updated her infographic on key book-publishing paths.
- For New York magazine, Lila Shapiro investigates “how one of publishing’s most hyped books became its biggest horror story — and still ended up a best seller.” (Spoiler: The book in question is American Dirt.)
- And of course, you’ll find a fresh set of Jewish-lit links posted today over on the My Machberet blog.
Wishing everyone a good, peaceful weekend.