nonfiction
August 7, 2009
- My obsession is with the truth. I suppose that’s because I did not feel I could tell my own truth for so long. I grew up as a flannel-wearing farm girl who had a thing for other girls, which I was certain had damned me to hell. I gradually made peace with the idea that a god who forbade love was not a god for me, but it took decades before I was old and wise enough (and far enough away ...
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August 3, 2009
- Do you enjoy horror, erotica, and/or narrative nonfiction? Stop by my website to check out my free reads: http://www.cerebralwriter.com genre: psychological thrillerinfluences: King, Koontzdraft: thirdfirst draft completed: 1996length: 6247 wordsA man finds himself sucked into the pits of madness after being bitten by what he perceives to be a werewolf. genre: erotic horror (18+ ...
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August 3, 2009
- Excited to report that I'm officially back to work on Strike Up The Band: Amazing American Instrument Makers From Ragtime To Rock, my nonfiction for middle-graders for Boyds Mills Press, after a couple of long, totally unforeseen, and very frustrating delays, which my awesome ed. helped me to iron out. Expecting editorial letter this week, then come revisions and a few more photos to ...
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July 28, 2009
- Discover the Character of your Mother with The Story Woman™ Could it be that you don't even like your mother? Ouch! Or maybe she's so special to you and you love her so much that you can't bring yourself to see her as someone distinct in her own right - someone separate from you. Have you ever taken the time to look at who your mother is at her core? Perhaps you don't want to look...too ...
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July 15, 2009
- The following article was sent to me by a woman who wrote one of the “mother memoirs” in my book, TellTale Souls: Daughters Keeping Spirits Alive One Story at a Time. She said she believed she got her common sense from her mother. I agree, so did I. But some beg to differ. What about you?The Death of Common Sense© Lori Borgman | Sunday, March 15, 1998 Three yards of black fabric enshroud ...
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July 8, 2009
- A few months ago I was contacted by a a fellow member of a colorectal cancer web discussion board to simply talk about cancer and writing and how we both are fairing. We shared a number of emails and then a phone call during which I learned that John is a professor of rhetoric at Stanford University, that he is working on a book of essays with another writer/cancer patient to be given to ...
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July 5, 2009
- The Workshops Issue of Able Muse (Summer 2009) is now online at:http://www.ablemuse.comwith:- FEATURED ARTISTS : Terri Graham, Andy Dolphin- FEATURED POET : Jennifer Reeser(INTERVIEWED BY: Tim Murphy)-POET SPOTLIGHT : Catherine Chandler(INTRODUCTION BY: Tim Murphy)POETRY:Dennis Loney, Rachel Hadas, Catherine Chandler, Timothy Murphy.Robert West, Aaron Poochigian, Hafiz, Bob Watts, Gilbert ...
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July 2, 2009
- My friend Ilan Mizrahi has published a wonderful book of his photos about Jerusalem -- not the conventional Jerusalem of suicide bombs and the Dome of the Rock and praying Hassids (though he covers that, too). Ilan, who was born just down the road from where I now live and is as "Jerusalem" as they come, aims to capture a side of the city populated by the poor, the drug abusers, the ...
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June 30, 2009
- My favorite Palestinian poet is Taha Muhammad Ali, a quietly bumbling presence when he reads his poems, but a deceptively intelligent writer. The warmth and intelligence of Taha’s readings drove Adina Hoffman, a Jerusalem-based writer, to plan a biography of the poet ("My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century”, published this April by Yale ...
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June 30, 2009
- This is not so much a literary story as it is one that I am still chuckling about. This past weekend my family and I were at a memorial service for a very dear friend that died suddenly of a heart attack on Memorial Day. While this was a sad time, there was also a lot of laughter and warmth as we remembered the wonderful person that Heather had been. Connecting with so many people and sharing ...
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