Blog Posts for Lisa Solod Warren

Great News for Writers Who Have Nothing to Say!

Lisa Solod Warren — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:00:19 -0700

All of you writers and would-be writers who have never been sexually abused by your parents, suffered from domestic assault, been abandoned on a highway somewhere by grandparents when raising you got to be too much; any of you who have never suffered from anorexia or bulimia, are not cancer survivors, who have never had a child addicted to drugs, or lost a child before his time; those of you who ...

The Internet and Reality Television Have Turned Me Into A Sad Cynic

Lisa Solod Warren — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:44:24 -0700

Once upon a time, a little Pollyanna-ish I know, I actually believed that most people were decent, most people were inherently good, and most people when given the chance were kind. I also believed in a) manners b) civility and c) generally good behavior in public and private. Not that I assumed for a moment that I or anyone else was perfect or without flaws. And not that I believed any of ...

Bob Dylan is "A Scruffy Old Man" And So Are You

Lisa Solod Warren — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:04:02 -0700

According to today's Daily Beast the legendary and, yes, old, Bob Dylan was questioned by a twenty-something police officer in New Jersey when someone reported “a scruffy old man acting suspiciously.” The twenty-something cop had no idea who Dylan was and made him prove his identification back at his hotel, then called the precinct because the cop still had no idea who Dylan ...

FUNNY! You Don't Look Jewish!

Lisa Solod Warren — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:28:07 -0700

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of my life for its entirety, from the first time, at age 5 or 6 I was told I was going to hell because I did not believe in Jesus, to the countless times I was called a “stupid Jew,” a kike, a baby killer, and a host of other names; from the time when, after the tent revivals rolled into town and everyone got “saved” (for the first or fifth time) the saved ...

The Emotional Consequences of DIRT

Lisa Solod Warren — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:19:16 -0700

Salon..com http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/05/19/kramer_dirt/index.html recently ran an article and an interview with the editor of a new book of essays I am included in, called DIRT: Writers on the Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House. In the article the writer says that "The most interesting essays in the collection are the ones that show how ...

Book Review: Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry, edited by Andrew Blauner

Lisa Solod Warren — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:19:48 -0700

Getting men to talk about family in an open and honest manner is a rare and special treat and reading Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry is like sitting in a comfortable chair, hidden in a darkened room, listening to guys tell their secrets to each other - when they think we aren’t listening. The book is so chock full of treasure, beauty and truth, that it is almost impossible to know ...

Why American Women Are Alone When They Don't Want To Be

Lisa Solod Warren — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:53:05 -0700

Having just returned from a lovely week in Paris with my sixteen-year-old daughter I was intrigued to pick up my friend Jamie Cat Callan's new book French Women Don't Sleep Alone and find so much good and spunky wisdom in it. I've traveled to France a dozen times and lived there two years from 2001-2003 and she's nailed the differences between French and American women's approaches to romance ...

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Lisa Solod Warren — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:12:25 -0700

Now that we have officially elected an elitist as president, I can finally come out of the closet. Although close friends and family have known for years that I am an elitist, I guess it is time to announce myself publicly. It seems that people are enjoying casting stones at both the president and others who value education, the arts, and other elitist values -- such as speaking in full ...

Why Do Republicans Hate Writers and Artists So Much?

Lisa Solod Warren — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:16:04 -0800

A few days ago, at a huge writers conference in Chicago, I met a charming and articulate man -- dressed in lizard cowboy boots and a very interesting sort of felt cowboy hat -- who happens to be a lobbyist for the arts. He was very excited to have just been a part of the effort to ensure the 50 million dollar funding of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the hope of continued funding ...

Writers (Why wish they could) Steal (and sometimes do)

Lisa Solod Warren — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:45:02 -0800

1. “What are Americans still buying? Big Macs, Campbell’s soup, Hershey’s, chocolate, and Spam – the four food groups of the apocalypse.” From Frank Rich’s Sunday, February 1, New York Times, column entitled “Herbert Hoover Lives” 2. I was driving my sister to a doctor’s appointment the other day. ...