Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
First, the Good News
Last week brought a byline I’ve been working literally years to see.
As an avid reader and fan of Tablet magazine from its outset, I’ve sent submissions and/or pitches–essays, poems, book reviews–to various editors for a very long time. With no success (though with gracious and friendly responses).
Finally, my persistence yielded something more: a dispatch from a terrific literary event—a celebration of Anzia Yezierska’s classic novel Bread Givers—that I attended last Wednesday evening.
Yay for me! And thank you, Tablet! [P.S. If you’re interested, I’ve written about Bread Givers twice before.] (more…)