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.”
- “Entropy Is Saying Farewell.”
- Tips on creating your online press kit. (HT: Frances Caballo.)
- A must-read for anyone who, like me, adores Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (thank you, Hudson Review/Joyce Zonana).
- Updated: this list of post-MFA fellowships.
- And of course, you’ll find fresh news from the world of Jewish books over on the My Machberet blog.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Thank you for posting the link to the article on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Erika.
I watched the film version on TV in England when I was twelve. My father had died a little while before and I remember finding a degree of solace in the film. But I was in my sixties before I was able to read the novel (thanks to having found a Perennial Classics edition on Kindle). I was most impressed.
Oh, yes, I imagine that Francie’s (and Neely’s) loss of their father must have resonated with you, Clive. I saw the film once. I have read the book countless times.
I love–and often teach–the book in a class, “The New Me: American Immigrant Writers.” I’ve also noticed a failure to appreciate what ought to be considered a remarkable classic. Thanks for this appraisel.
How wonderful that you teach it!