Check out the 2nd Draft Reading Series, July 9th on the Lower East Side
July 1st, 2009If you’re in the New York area, come check out some saw-it-here-first works-in-progress at the Roots & Vines Cafe (details on 2nd-draft_5_b1).
Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
I Heart Felicia Sullivan
June 30th, 2009
Drink Talk
June 30th, 2009Writers Caren Osten Gerszberg and Leah Odze Epstein, co-editors of an anthology-in-progress called SPILL, have started a sharp-looking blog as part of this project about women and drinking. The same day Caren and Leah contacted me about it, I’d picked up the first books I have ever bought in the self-help section of a bookstore: Adult Children of Alcoholics and Losing a Parent. Clearly, this is something I wanted to read and write about to come to terms with my own thoughts and feelings about a personal/family situation and loss, and how it continually affects me and the kind of writing I do, but on a larger scale this anthology feels necessary. So many women have been and continually are affected by drinking, whether a partner’s, family member’s, or their own. The secrecy and shame that goes along with it must be broken.
On writing derived from life’s raw material
June 24th, 2009Quote of the Day
June 23rd, 2009“Writing is a technology, after all, and there is a sense in which human beings who write can be thought of as writing machines.”
Good Times at the Kerouac Project fundraiser weekend
June 22nd, 2009
I call the Kerouac Project “the residency that keeps on giving” — two years after the summer I spent writing in the house (where Jack Kerouac wrote Dharma Bums in eleven days on a scroll) I attended the second annual fundraiser at Summer and Steven’s house - Steven designed this website and Summer is one of the project’s founding members - and a great time at their lakeside eco-manor ensued.
