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.”
- A new series on the Cincinnati Review blog focuses on Writers’ Day Jobs.
- If you’re up for an intriguing Twitter thread, check out Lisa Lucas’s challenge: “Describe what your 2021 has been like thus far using a book title.”
- On my viewing queue: a new PBS documentary on Amy Tan. In the meantime, this Harper’s Bazaar profile of Tan (by Alexandra Chang) will have to suffice.
- Of course, you can find a fresh set of Jewish literary links posted over on the My Machberet blog.
- And icymi: The June issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0 was emailed to subscribers on Monday. Within it, I point you to Listen Notes, a resource I discovered thanks to Jane Friedman, who recommends it for book-promo purposes. You’ll find all the details here.
Have a great weekend.
