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Sunday Sentence

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In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Eventually a poem was accepted by Poetry (Submission No. 179) and then The New Yorker (Submission No. 240), and that changed everything.

Source: Jesse Lichtenstein, “The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas” (profile of Patricia Lockwood), The New York Times Magazine.

Friday Finds for Writers

by Erika Dreifus on
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Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • Over on The Missouri Review’s blog, Michael Nye has posted some thoughts on MFA degrees that I find resonant–others, Facebook has indicated to me, are finding them provocative.
  • Following the death of Gabriel García Márquez, The New Yorker has unlocked García Márquez materials from its archive.
  • Francine Prose and Leslie Jamison take on the question, “Is It O.K. to Mine Real Relationships for Literary Material?”.
  • On advocating “but”; I share the author’s enthusiasm for the word, but have found it edited out all too often.
  • And for your weekend listening: a podcast of Richard Ford’s recent conversation with Ron Charles, courtesy of The Pen/Faulkner Foundation.

    • Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.

    Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress: Five Not-So-Easy Pieces

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    Right now I am tracking the publication of five new pieces that should be out in the world this spring. They’re all freelance–by which I mean that I have been or will be paid for all of them–and they’re all nonfiction. And, with the exception of one “quickie,” which seemed to write itself, they were each quite challenging.

    Two have already been published. One (the one that seemed to write itself) looks at stories and poems about writing for the ReadLearnWrite website. The second is a review of Aharon Appelfeld’s Suddenly, Love (trans. Jeffrey M. Green) for the Los Angeles-based Jewish Journal.

    A third should be showing up in the mail any day. And I can let you in on it because someone else already has:

    The final two are the mysteries. I haven’t yet found out exactly when they’ll appear. Suffice to say that I’m quite excited about them (each will mark my first byline with the associated publication). And I look forward to sharing them with you!