When my two children were both old enough to attend school, I was excited by the prospect of solitude and the chance to finally return to writing.
The Writing Life: Watching the Clock by Kelly Shire
Category: Articles
Review: Sober Stick Figure by Amber Tozer
When Amber Tozer was 13, she and her best friend crawled out a window, met two boys at the tennis courts, and passed around a bottle of bourbon until Tozer felt like a superhero.
Review: David Kushner, Alligator Candy
Kushner is a journalist, and as such his writing style is blunt and visceral. He doesn’t shy away from immersing his readers in the experience…
CRAFT: 5 Strategies for Writing Better Dialogue by Tom Farr
Dialogue is something fiction writers have to think about all the time, but it’s just as important if you’re writing narrative nonfiction or memoir.
CRAFT: Can I Live Off A Book Advance? by Abby Norman
You’ve got your agent. You’ve found a publisher. Now, you’re entering a strange period of apparent uselessness while your agent and publisher talk in hushed tones about The Deal.
Review: Bookbinder’s Daughter: A Life Lost and Found by Judith A. Fisher
At 15, Judith A. Fisher began stealing her mother’s painkillers. One night, feeling particularly unloved by her parents, she leaves a note and swallows the pills, waking up later in the hospital
Review: Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age
…The Lost Landscape has taught me that even literary titans are human beings underneath the hype, and they themselves can get lost when venturing into an unfamiliar genre.
Craft: Stranger Than Nonfiction: Examining Point of View in Creative Nonfiction by P. Casey Telesk
Switching POV is criticized in creative nonfiction even more than it is in fiction.. But it’s absolutely possible.
REEL LIFE: Interview – Al Monelli of Lancaster Trilogy Always Had ‘Great Expectations’ for Storytelling
When his English teacher assigned a book report on the Dickens’ novel, he asked if he could produce a movie instead.
Review: White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine by Janet Sternburg
Janet Sternburg’s White Matter (Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts, 2014) is a memoir of a family torn apart and brought together when two of its six children were given lobotomies.
