Some Tuesday Poetry
On Friday I take the dread MA exam, the one I’ve been studying for these past seven months or so. My brain is too full of those books to concentrate on any other reading until then, so in the meantime … Continue reading
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The Process of Writing – Sounds
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about how people write. Not just making pretty metaphors or 708 Shakespeare allusions so everyone knows how cool you are (wait, do people still do that, or is that just all the white … Continue reading
New Magazine on the Scene: Sundog Lit
I have been following Sundog Lit on twitter for a while now, anticipating the release of their first issue. I stumbled onto the magazine through random connections on twitter, and I’ve been enamored of the idea ever since. With a … Continue reading
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Tagged flash fiction, literature, magazine, news, online, poetry
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Insatiable. Booksluts. That’s Right.
I’ve been invited to guest post about the classics over at Insatiable Booksluts! I can’t tell you how cool I feel to be associated with that group of awesome people. You can read all my thoughts on Eliot’s “The Waste … Continue reading
Justification
Recently, my family and I moved across state lines. The move has addled my brain far longer than I thought it would! My recent absence from my brand new, fledgling little site has been sorely felt. I am writing now … Continue reading
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In the Wake of “50 Shades”
After 50 Shades of Grey exploded the publishing world with the radical notion that women like reading about sex, the scramble to find another book or author to trail along in the wake has been making news. While a part … Continue reading
The Wattpad Chronicles, Part I
In our digital age, two new facets of reading and publishing are pushing at the forefront of literary change: e-reading and self-publishing. As much as the purist in me rebels at the idea of self-publishing, I have been taking it … Continue reading
Books for Women, Jews, and Jewish Women (aka Fiction)
Alice Gregory’s article today in Tablet magazine, named “Jennifer Weiner’s Shiksa Lit,” again brings the author into a debate about “chick lit,” which Weiner has historically done battle with many times. Gregory focuses on Weiner’s novels as a means of … Continue reading
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Tagged books by women, chick lit, dick lit, jennifer weiner, jewishness, news, women
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Summer Reads: the Fiction Vacation
If you browse through any popular book sites, you will inevitably see a brightly hued article beckoning “Best Summer Reads!” There might even be a cute graphic of a beach ball, someone (most of the time a woman, because only … Continue reading
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Tagged anne lamott, beach books, culture, fiction, jennifer weiner, reading, summer, YA fiction
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Writing the Past
As a child, I remember hearing my parents and grandparents talk about how quickly the days pass, how we were growing up so fast, but I truly thought they were a pack of liars. In my childhood and teenage years, … Continue reading
