Just got this in email from my pal Jordan and am passing it on–looks great: Your Turnin the Write Free Newsletteredited by Rebecca Lawton andJordan E. Rosenfeld This Month: Rebirth and Susan Bono of Tiny LightsDeadline: February 15Your Turn is a feature of the Write Free E-Newsletter (by the co-authors of the forthcoming book Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life—Kulupi Press), which offers writers … Read More Your Turn — Deadline February 15th
Ellen Meister has launhced an exciting new project called Brava!: Welcome to Brava, where mothers get their well-deserved moment in the spotlight. Inspired by James Lipton’s Inside the Actor’s Studio, this site asks a set of questions—including the famous Bernard Pivot interview—designed to offer an inside glimpse at the glorious women so often obscured by their role. Look for details of how you can … Read More Brava!
Here’s some stuff I’ve read and enjoyed recently: Tom Perrotta’s Joe College: A Novel is the fast-paced and darkly humorous tale of Danny, a kid from a working-class background who attends Yale in the early 80s. At work in this novel is Danny’s struggle between the fancy restaurant world of his college life and the tawdry strip club world of his hometown life. These … Read More read it
GUD (Greatest Uncommon Denominator) is a new and exciting journal that is definitely worth a read. Here’s a blurb from the web site on what you can expect to find: Issue 0 is headed up by Kaolin Fire. His background has long been fantasy and science fiction, but through Scrawl and Night Train he’s received a better understanding of and even a desire for … Read More GUD Issue 0
3AM has undergone a facelift and man, does it look great! It also reads great and features two of my favorite writers: Alicia Gifford with Punk Love and Liesl Jobson with Three Stories: Oupa, Oprah’s Girl, Prognosis
The latest issue of FRiGG is live and oozing with goodness. Read it. Love it. Wrap your arms around it and make sure not to miss the work of Kathy Fish, Claudia Smith, Dennis Mahagin.
Please take a few minutes to head over to La Bloga and read this thoughtful essay, by my friend Désirée Zamorano: Unfolding Lives
If you have not been following along with Gail Konop Baker’s brave and honest Bare-Breasted Mama column, then you are really missing out. Here, start with this one and then make your way through the rest (I promise you won’t regret it): More Important Things To Do And while you’re there, why not take a minute to leave Gail a comment letting her know … Read More read it
This photo is of two birch trees at the end of my driveway which are bent over with the weigh of ice. Birches are not very strong trees–they are bendy, they are delicate, which is probably why they are also so beautiful. We had an ice storm this week–not quite as severe as in the midwest, but enough ice (I think just over 1/2 … Read More Ice
Just wondering. Here’s what else I’m wondering about: Who ISN’T running for president?
I fell asleep thinking about two things: 1)The Sunshine Family 2) Global Warming Why these two particular things? Global warming because it was 65 degrees yesterday in the New England town where I live and it was 70 degrees (or more) in Boston. On the news I saw that people were shopping on Newbury Street in shirt sleeves. Some in shorts. Allen heard a … Read More Will The Sunshine Family Halt Global Warming?
I recently finished reading Jane Kenyon’s collected poems which left me missing her and wanting more. And so I picked up The Best Day The Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon written by Kenyon’s husband–the esteemed poet Donald Hall. While the subtitle of this book is “Life with Jane Kenyon,” I would argue that it is not so much about Kenyon’s life with Hall … Read More The Best Day The Worst Day, by Donald Hall
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