A Non-heterosexual, Non-male-identified, Creative Nonfiction Pathfinder, Beta .2 (Work in progress, November 2005, K.G. Schneider, kgs at bluehighways dot com) (N.b. I began this pathfinder last week, when I realized that I could not list any contemporary lesbian creative nonfiction writers. I ran a search in ProQuest, then approached a mailing list for GLBT librarians, […]
This entry logs some of the other articles and works I’ve written (most of them don’t show up in Google Scholar, for what that’s worth). Internet Librarian (column for American Libraries, 1995-2002): This is a partial archive. I’ll work on the gaps with My Friend Google. 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Other […]
There’s a funny riff on Language Log about women’s underwear, woven into a longer meditation about whitey-tighty and its variants: “[(]There are bikini briefs made for women, though the line, if there is one, between these and panties is unclear to me. Sometimes I think that bikini briefs are just panties for men. Hey, I […]
Given my earlier post, I was startled to see that San Francisco Chronicle magazine section features an article about MFA writing programs, with the full-paragraph title, “Great Expectations: Might one get published — or just enjoy a couple of years off from reality — in one of our many packed creative writing programs?” I am […]
This hasn’t been a real summer anyway, with all the work related to the new MPOW, but summer officially ended for me around 2 p.m. yesterday, when I received an email asking if I would be one of the hardy volunteers to turn in an essay on the first day of my fall writing workshop. […]
FRL readers who have my RSS 2 field already know this, since RSS 2 publishes updated posts, but you who are still subscribed to the RSS 1 feed may be interested to read my updated MFA Project outline, for the first time with snippets from the actual pieces in work–you know, My Craft. (In other […]
[As one last class assignment about interviewing, we had a group interview with baseball historian and broadcaster Marty Lurie, whose radio program airs before every Oakland A’s game. Marty is a good sport–pun intended–and this was fun. He gave me permission to publish this interview.] ——— Marty Lurie is telling another story. “I used to […]
The past week has been a perfect storm, work-wise. I’m finishing our annual grant for MPOW, which I spend way too much time on so my conscious will be clear if we don’t get everything we ask for. Today I went in to check our statistics for another bit of braggadocio, only to discover 800 […]
This is a brief kibbles-and-bits post. First, I swooned over ZZ Packer’s reading at University of San Francisco last night. Big take-away: read my writing aloud. (We had just been reminded of this in my lit class, too. Reading aloud is like flossing: we know it’s important, and we don’t do it enough.) I refuse […]
For a while, I’ve been meditating over a rather flattering request to provide a list of 5 to 8 of my favorite books for the next edition of the Whole Library Handbook, for a section on books chosen by Famous Librarians. “As before, the term ‘book’ is defined as loosely as possible, so you may […]