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Friday Finds for Writers

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Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • Lots of good news from the (U.S.) National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) this week, especially for the recipients of the Creative Writing Fellowships. But even more of us are likely to benefit from the “Art Works” grants to presses and journals, whether simply by encountering writing that those grants will support or, in some cases, benefiting from the increased author/contributor payments promised by such publications as American Poetry Review, AGNI, and n+1.
  • Interesting issues raised in David Duhr’s “Hi! I Reviewed Your Book! A Twitter Guide.”
  • Great piece by Michelle Nijhuis for the NYT “Draft” column, on “The Science and Art of Science Writing.”
  • “Last October, after [Kaylie] Jones woke up one morning feeling particularly frustrated by the plight of many of her students and colleagues, who typically write artistic, literary novels not deemed commercially viable, she called one of her MFA students and her bosses, asking if they’d help her if she started an imprint. The answers were emphatic yeses.” Read more about Kaylie Jones Books.
  • “The 2013 Nobel Lecture in Literature was replaced by a pre-recorded video conversation with the Laureate: ‘Alice Munro: In her Own Words’, shown at the Swedish Academy on 7 December 2013.” I plan to watch the video this weekend; if you haven’t yet, you might want to do the same.

    • Have a great weekend, everyone.

    Friday Finds for Writers

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    Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • If you’re new to Twitter, you may find this primer to be useful.
  • “71 Ways to Promote and Market Your Book.” (h/t @JennCrowell)
  • A promising new-ish website I’ll be keeping an eye on: “The Writer’s Job,” which describes itself as a “guide to writing and making a living.”
  • For the next few weeks, Cathy Day plans to dedicate her “Teaching Tuesday” blog posts to some of her teachers and what she has learned from them. First up: Michael Martone.
  • This Q&A with Adam Berlin addresses the author’s new, post-9/11 novel; his work as co-founder/co-editor of J Journal: New Writing on Justice; and the gaps that can occur between books.

    • Have a great weekend, everyone.

    Weekend Web Wanderings

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    Usually, I limit writing-link roundups to the “Friday Finds” posts. But I’ve run across so many interesting items over the past couple of days that I’m going sharing an exceptional set of “Weekend Web Wanderings” today as well. Hope that you enjoy!

  • Over on the Ploughshares blog, Rebecca Makkai advocates “writing as if…”. (h/t @occasionallyzen)
  • There’s something kind of whiny about this piece by Lionel Shriver on how much non-writing is involved in a writer’s work life. But there’s also something true about it.
  • Fascinating interview with poet Nikki Finney. Among the thought-provoking morsels: “Nobody wants to hear your rant. If you want to rant and if you want to be full of rage, you can put that in your journal book. Art is about the provocative, but it is also about the beautiful. I never forget that. They go hand in hand for me.”
  • Carol Tice takes on the subject of early-reader reviews–and how to make them better.
  • And I’m cheating a bit with this one. Let’s just say that I’ve recently been “inspired” to revisit my own “7 Reasons This Writer May Unfollow You on Twitter.”

    • Friday Finds for Writers

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    Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (It’s a list-heavy list o’ links this week, if that makes any sense.)

  • “17 Personal Essays That Will Change Your Life.” (h/t McNeese Review)
  • “7 Tips for Writing Better Emails” (aimed toward an academic audience, but applicable more broadly).
  • Archival discovery: “Julia Child’s List of Discarded Titles for Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”
  • The children’s librarians at The New York Public Library have come up with a list of 100 Great Children’s Books from the past 100 years.
  • Want to see some lit links with a specifically Jewish inflection? Check out this week’s Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat on my other blog.

    • Have a great weekend, all.

    Sunday Sentence

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    veritas_logoAnother 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.”

    “‘Your acceptance into Harvard is one of the shining accomplishments of my life,’ she said, ‘and I’ll be damned if I see you give it away.'”

    —Justin Porter’s essay in the latest issue of The New York Times‘s “Education Life” section.