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What’s Up…Friday?
I’ve been wanting to do a What’s Up Wednesday post for a while. For the uninitiated, What’s Up Wednesday was an idea for a weekly blog post started by YA author Jaime Morrow, who blogs here. I love the...
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Journey to Getting Published Part Four: Course Correct (Or: Learning a Thing...
This post is the fourth in a series. You might be interested in Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. Thanks! —– Boats in Oslo Harbor, Norway I teach writing to art students, who, like me, are concerned...
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Plug: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
I was asked to join a book group, and the first selection was the new Jhumpa Lahiri novel, The Lowland. I had read her Pulitzer-Prize winning book of short stories, The Interpreter of Maladies, last...
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Poem
I loved today’s poem on Poetry Daily, “What Oh What to Wear” by Nance Van Winckel. All morning I passed it over because the title made me think it might yield a shallow sort of piece, until I finally...
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Twenty Novels I’m Grateful For
I had this idea to choose twenty books I was thankful for as an homage to one of my favorite holidays, Thanksgiving. But then I realized I couldn’t choose only twenty, or decide which to include. So...
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The 2013 Literary Gift Guide
This post originally appeared over on popcorntheblog. Sleigh bells ring…are you listening? I am. The temperatures have plummeted in California, leaving me in a mind of Christmas. I’m all geared up for...
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Rejections I Have Known
Rejections I Have Known I got a rejection from a literary magazine the other day. It was simply awful. It was awful because they’d had my essay for eight months, and because the assistant had emailed...
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Check out this interview with Margaret Wrinkle, over on Popcorn…
Susan Szafir’s at it again, with an interview with Wash author Margaret Wrinkle. Head on over to Popcorn to check it out. –Susie
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Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
I recently finished Maria Semple’s fun novel This One is Mine, and it threw me for a bit of a loop. At first it read like typical plot-driven fiction, with blow jobs and heroin-shooting and infidelity...
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Charles Wright poem on Poetry Daily today
I love the work of poet Charles Wright, and I loved the two poems from his book Caribou, reprinted on Poetry Daily today. Enjoy! ——- My Old Clinch Mountain Home I keep on hoping a theme will bite me,...
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