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Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer

by Erika Dreifus on
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Cocsi0fWgAANp6lLaunching Lucy Pear

This time last week, I was preparing to venture out to Brooklyn for the launch of Anna Solomon’s new novel, Leaving Lucy Pear, at one of my favorite bookstores, BookCourt.

I knew that it would be a lovely evening, and I was right! I got to sneak in dinner beforehand with a pal who was also attending the reading and caught up with a number of familiar faces in the audience at the store.

Anna read beautifully, and her conversation with J. Courtney Sullivan was lively and laughter-filled. (And Anna’s young daughter asked excellent questions from the audience. An example: “Was the book hard to write?”)

Congratulations to Anna on the launch of this book, which is receiving some rave reviews! (more…)

Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer

by Erika Dreifus on
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Three_PoemsA Triple Acceptance

It isn’t every day that I receive a poetry acceptance; you can imagine how unusual it is to receive three acceptances at once. Which happened late last week.

Okay, technically, it was one acceptance: the same editor accepted the three poems for the same publication (an anthology) within a single email. But these poems were not written as a suite. So it was something of a special surprise to have them all accepted. (And I should note that two others in that batch didn’t seem to pass muster.)

But that’s fine. I’m thrilled to have these three find a home together–and equally happy that I’ve already been paid for them! (Full details to come when I share my July stats over on Poetry Has Value.) (more…)