On Rosh Hashanah
For those of you unfamiliar with Jewish holidays, today is a big one. I won’t be blogging, but will be back tomorrow. If you’d like to learn more about Rosh Hashanah, which I am celebrating today, please click here.
Friday Find: The CV Doctor Returns
If you’re on the academic job market this year, you may want to wander over to the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s career section and benefit from advice from the “CV Doctor” feature. This year (unlike last year), the expert analysts did not opt to review in-depth a vitae from a writer seeking a teaching job, but you’re guaranteed to pick up useful pointers from the documents that they did analyze, as well as from their list of common mistakes to avoid when crafting any cv, nonetheless. Good luck, and have a good weekend!
Random Encounter with a Former Editor
On Tuesday night I made my first (and given the way my own writing seems to be going these days, quite likely only) visit to the Random House building on Broadway. I owe that opportunity to the wonderful people at Jewish Book World, who invited me to come to a reception held on the building’s 14th floor to celebrate their redesigned publication.
I arrived late (note to self: do not take a crosstown bus when various world leaders and [vice]presidential candidates are in town), but managed to hear a few of the speakers and, even better, caught up with a few people I was very glad to see again.
Among them was Josh Lambert. As former editor of JBooks.com, Josh was the first one there to accept my pitches and publish my work, so he has my eternal gratitude. I’d also noticed in some of his own recent bio notes–he is very much a practicing writer!–that he is about to become a published book author, so I was glad to have the chance to find out more about American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide), which will be published in January (JPS, for those who may not know, is the Jewish Publication Society. Expect to hear more about that book from me in due course.
(cross-posted on My Machberet)
The Wednesday Web Browser: Poetry Events, Award for Adichie, and A Teaching Writer
Robert Lee Brewer helps us find poetry events in a multitude of locations.
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It has been nearly two years since I read Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. That book left quite an impression on me, and I was happy to learn this week that Adichie has won a MacArthur Fellowship. Congratulations to her!
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David Gessner writes about his experience as a writer-who-teaches in the latest New York Times magazine.
Creative Writing at CUNY
If you’re in the New York City area, please do visit this list of literary events taking place on the various campuses of The City University of New York. (As you know, I’m a CUNY employee, and part of my job includes updating this list.) And if you’re looking for some low-cost, high-quality writing programs (undergraduate, graduate, and certificate), please consult this page as well. (P.S.–You’ll find my latest CUNY Distinguished Professor Profile, this time focusing on art historian and biographer Gail Levin, right here.)