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So we had a deliriously wonderful week in Manhattan, staying at our friends’ elegant Chelsea condo (which we had all to ourselves for all but one day), and when I got home I saw an Amazon box with my name on it. By this time I had forgotten about SantaThing — the LibraryThing “Secret Santa” […]
I don’t get Christmas letters any more, and that’s a good thing. How I loathed them. “We had an amazing year! Look how well we did! Life is great!” I was able to stumble through the year, for better or worse, until my life was held up against someone’s improbable standard. This won’t be that […]
Writing away Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian This workshop — my first-ever writing class — was blissfully successful for all concerned. The post-class evaluations were the best I’ve ever had in fifteen years of training and teaching. Teaching a writing class has been a goal of mine for a couple of years, and it was better […]
Trying to buy a gift for a writer? First, I just heard from W, a delightful friend from a Former Place Of Work Minus Two, and I am reminded of her wise counsel, whenever the subject of gifts arises: large, sparkling gems are always appropriate. Imagine the special writer in your life, hunched over a […]
I am enormously flattered to have my thoughts on the state of the essay featured as a blog post in an interesting ongoing discussion on Brevity’s blog. These thoughts started as a comment on an earlier post in an eminently readable thread. Perhaps my words showed me in good form because I’ve been thinking about […]
Once again LibraryThing has done something fresh and marvelous. This time it’s SantaThing. “You play Santa to a random LibraryThing member, and buy them up $20 worth of books, based on their library or a short description. Someone else does the same to you. LibraryThing orders the books and pays the shipping, so no addresses […]
At 7 a.m. in a quiet hotel room — we were in Savannah over Thanksgiving weekend, and I was trying not to wake Sandy — I finished Leaving Atlanta, then rolled back and re-read the last section. I was struck again with the infusion of the child’s crystalline seeing with the (off-stage, narrative) adult’s wisdom. […]
Know anyone in the Chicago area looking for a lit class at a community college? I found this on the Newpages blog and just had to cross-post. The syllabus makes me want to take the class myself! ——————————————- Dear folks– I want to ask you to let friends know about the Gay & Lesbian Lit […]
My essay “Chow” is in the fall issue of Gastronomica, pictured here. Gastronomica‘s website doesn’t show it yet, but I’m bursting with pride so here you are. Yes, that is Freud holding a weenie. Sometimes a Hebrew National is just a Hebrew National. That makes three essays this year: “David, Just as he was,” in […]