Friday Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.
Shabbat shalom.
Some nice developments in my writing life over the past week or so:
Some not-so-nice developments:
So that’s what’s “in-progress” with me. What about you?
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)
Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
But of course, a Jew is never free not to be a Jew—and a writer who publishes a whole book about being Jewish is not exactly fleeing the identification.
Source: Adam Kirsch’s review of Yascha Mounk’s new memoir, for Tablet.
(Again, breaking the “no-commentary” rule: I like this sentence so much because it crystallizes my own sentiments after reading Mounk’s essay in last week’s New York Times “Week in Review.”)