Finds for Writers
Each Friday, the Practicing Writing blog shares writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend.
- This week brought news of “the appointment of Ada Limón as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2022-2023.”
- I haven’t read Delia Owens’s Where the Crawdads Sing, and I wasn’t planning to watch the movie; Jeffrey Goldberg’s report for The Atlantic certainly doesn’t make me want to change my mind.
- From Publishers Weekly: “Finding a Place for Disability in Publishing” by John Loeppky.
- Over on NiemanStoryboard, veteran author Lauren Kessler recalls the experience of publishing—and promoting—her first book (in the mid-1990s) and her latest one, which launched this spring. (Spoiler in the headline: “So you want to write a book? Brace yourself for some serious self-promotion and, yes, TikTok.”)
- And of course, you’ll find a fresh set of Jewish literary links posted over on the My Machberet blog.
Wishing everyone a good weekend.
Oh gee about Jeffrey Goldber’s article. Oh gee oh gee, how horrifying, how enraging, how everything…negative…but thanks for posting it. I started the book after it was recommended by a friend. This was maybet two years ago. I was bored and irritated pretty quickly, though I don’t remember why and I put it in the give away pile.
He discusses it further in this new episode of the “Reliable Sources” podcast, if you think you can tolerate hearing more about it. https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/reliable-sources/episodes/bc410941-0280-41c0-ab7f-aed2015b4c26