Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
Disabled

so2015_coverIn which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Natural talent matters much more than I realized when I started to teach myself how to write, and if I want to keep writing I have to make my peace with the fact that I don’t have as much of it as I would like.

Source: Michael Bourne’s “Failure Is an Option,” the “Why We Write” column in the latest (September/October 2015) issue of Poets & Writers.

From My Bookshelf

by Erika Dreifus on
Disabled

UnknownWhen William Daroff speaks, I listen. Thus, last week’s vacation reading included Einat Wilf‘s new e-book, Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel (edited by Daniel Rubinstein).

Prior to downloading and reading the e-book, I was not familiar with Wilf’s work (or, at least, did not clearly recall her byline). Formerly a member of the Israeli Knesset, she is a self-described “Roving Ambassador for Israel and Zionism, telling our story to a variety of audiences.” Judging by the essays in this collection, that’s good news for Israel and Zionism–and by extension, for all of us.

Since the book essentially compiles a number of Wilf’s published writings, I can point you directly to some of the essays that impressed me as especially cogent, insightful, and relevant to discussions and debates I’ve seen play out elsewhere. (more…)