Finds for Writers
Writing- and publishing-related items to peruse at week’s end.
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Finds for Writers
Writing- and publishing-related resources to peruse over the weekend.
- A poignant message from Sy Safransky, as he steps into “editor emeritus” status at The Sun. (Thanks to Susan Perabo for leading me to this.)
- Over on Bookfox: “4 Ways to Use Silence in Your Fiction.”
- “Next spring, author Lauren Groff and her husband, Clay Kallman, plan to open The Lynx in downtown Gainesville, Fla. The 2,300-square-foot store will sell new books for all ages, with an emphasis on Florida’s literary history and, especially, books currently banned in the state.” More info via Shelf Awareness.
- For Writer Unboxed, David Corbett explores “Your Character’s Faith (or Lack Thereof).”
- And on a not-unrelated note: Check out the latest Jewish literary links over on My Machberet (including some news about my next online appearance).
Finds for Writers
I’m posting this week’s “Finds” in much the same spirit that I posted last week’s.
#SundaySentence
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
I focus on this example because these novelists and playwrights and poets can be expected, unlike politicians, to be sensitive to the necessity for precision and clarity—words are their vocation—and because the statement they produced, out of an undoubtedly genuine and deep concern for the population of Gaza, would make Orwell spin in his grave.
Source: Gal Beckerman, “Beware the Language That Erases Reality” (The Atlantic)
Finds for Writers
Another week, another atypical Friday post.
Normally, I post a set of particularly Jewishly-inflected literary links over on the My Machberet blog each Thursday. And the next day, I link to that post as one of several “finds” for the broader writing community right here on Practicing Writing.
But in my world, and for many of you, nothing’s normal right now.
Here’s what I posted on My Machberet yesterday.
And in this space today, I’ll post some items that, more urgently than usual, seem important for both blogs’ audiences to encounter.
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