Mindy Lewis is the author of Life Inside: A Memoir (Atria Books 2002, Washington Square Press 2003). Her essays have been published in Newsweek, Lilith, Body & Soul, and Poets & Writers magazines, and in anthologies.
"I know all the words but would never sing aloud in pubic." -Life Inside, p.21 After I meticulously went over the manuscript, and the publisher's copyedits on first galley, the publisher decided to send the ms out to be retyped (the book was too long and I had to cut 75+ pages). To my horror, the ARC was riddled with typos like the above (as many as 4-5 per page). Three times I ...
For decades, I struggled to find a path. In and out of school, I was a visual artist who studied philosophy. My business card was a wallet sized black & white photocopy of a snapshot of clouds: no name, no title. When people asked me what I wanted to be, I'd answer: "I want to be a paid traveling humanist." I researched careers in human services, in healthcare, in psychology, in ...
