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A Response to Jia Tolentino’s “The Personal-Essay Boom is Over”
Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
By Zoë Bossiere A couple of weeks ago, a piece by Jia Tolentino came out in The New Yorker called “The Personal-Essay Boom is Over.” The title alone was enough to deluge social…
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Paradigm shift alert – for this site and for my life
I’ve moved this from my home page where it was originally posted February 1, 2017. The standard wisdom in the publishing world is for authors to avoid controversial topics on their websites and social media for fear of alienating potential … Continue reading
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Never Call Yourself a Writer, and Other Rules for Writing
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By Shawna Kenney First thought, best thought; revise, revise, revise. Write first thing in the morning when the mind is alert; write at night and never while sober. Do it alone, in an office…
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Look what the wind blew in!
What fun to write my guest post for Patricia McLinn’s blog this past week, in a whirlwind trip down memory lane! I revisited one of my many past lives – this one as a police/fire/9-1-1 dispatcher in the late ’70s/early … Continue reading
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Seeing an Essay and My Father Anew
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Gilbert’s father bought a great-great-great grandson of this legendary bull, shown in 1935 By Richard Gilbert Almost three years ago, I began writing about accompanying my father to buy a Hereford bull when…
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About a Microwave
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By Dinty W. Moore I am reviewing a blank book. The pages are entirely empty – not a single word. That makes it nonfiction, yes? Because there is no fiction printed within. And…
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“Suffering” deserves a definition
Because others are saying what I’m thinking in much better language than my distressed and overwhelmed brain is apparently capable of these days, I’m on a string of sharing their words. This does not make them – or my agreement – any … Continue reading
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“Work together” goes both ways
I am not the person that wrote this, but I join the many folks who are signing on and spreading the word. This is long but it is important, and it deserves wider dissemination than the Facebook rounds it’s making: This is … Continue reading
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If you’re going to complain, at least be honest
Recently, in the early days of the #MuslimBan crisis, a Facebook friend who I fully expected would know better shared a post that was something along the lines of, “Of course we should secure our borders. We don’t lock our … Continue reading
An explanation/follow-up re: my new home page
“Every compulsion is put on writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.” – Sinclair Lewis We as writers are repeatedly counseled to monitor our social media presence, chastened to be cautious of expressing opinions on topics that could be … Continue reading
