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The Wednesday Web Browser for Writers

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  • Maybe you weren’t able to make it to the recent Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) panel on “The Good Review.” Or maybe, like me, you were lucky enough to be in the audience that morning, but you’d like to revisit all of the wonderful insights that were shared that day. In either case, you’ll be glad to know that Fiction Writers Review is presenting a series of the panelists’ talks online. First up: Jeremiah Chamberlin. (Also coming this week: Charles Baxter, Stacey D’Erasmo, and Keith Taylor.)
  • The next issue of The Practicing Writer will feature an interview with author Ellen Meeropol (House Arrest). One subject touched on in the interview is the challenge of writing about politics in fiction. In this blog post, Ellen shares additional ideas on that subject.
  • In the Wall Street Journal, writing professor Dean Bakopoulos explains “How Reading Junot Diaz Can Help America Prosper.” (via @FictionWriters)
  • Interesting review-essay in the Boston Globe on writing about the death of a loved one. (via @JewishMuse)
  • And on a personal note: My precious nephew (age 4 1/2) is becoming a practicing writer! As with many other activities, writing is harder for him than it should be, and we’re all extremely proud of each and every advance. No one is prouder than his devoted Mommy (my sister).

    • Quotation of the Week: Ernest Hemingway

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    “From things that have happened . . . and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality….That is why you write and for no other reason.”

    –Ernest Hemingway

    This quotation arrived via degrees: quoted by Joyce Carol Oates, cited by Ruth Franklin, in Bookforum (with a final hat tip to Jessica Handler).

    The Wednesday Web Browser for Writers

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    Lots of excellent finds for you this week, my practicing writer friends!

  • I’m not one for making too many New Year’s resolutions myself, but I sure do enjoy reading other people’s lists of intentions. And I really liked reading poet Diane Lockward’s recent review of how she fared with the resolutions she made for 2010.
  • Good news for those of us who love good fiction: Andrew’s Book Club is back.
  • I thought Daniel Handler’s essay on reading poetry, in the January 2011 issue of Poetry magazine, was terrific when I read it in print, and I’m so glad that it’s now online.
  • I know: You don’t expect to hear about my book, Quiet Americans, before Thursday, but I can’t help pointing you to these reflections, which were inspired by mention of another author’s new book on the Tablet magazine site a few days ago.
  • Looking for some writerly inspiration in the new year? Check out Lisa Romeo’s Winter Writing Prompts Project. And Midge Raymond’s weekly writing exercises.
  • Speaking of inspiration, I am loving Sage Cohen’s new Path of Possibility site. It’s tough to single out favorite posts, but here’s one, about conquering fear, and here’s another, in which Sage shares some of her own beautiful poetry.
  • Also empowering: Carol Tice’s freelance writer’s manifesto.
  • And let’s take one last glance back at 2010, through the eyes (and words) of writers from around the world (with a little help from translators, as needed).