Combining Photography and Writing
Wayne Yang is a talented photographer and writer who has written for The Christian Science Monitor, The Asian Review of Books, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Free Press, among others. He and I worked together as editors of Night Train literary magazine, and he is a suberb and geeky human being. […]
Quick interruption: I’m interviewed here. And the dangers of pretending you’re deaf are here. Now back to the weekly wrap.
Every Friday, the Hendersons go to Chinese school. Some of my homework:
Mandarin is something I really suck at and I’m not afraid to admit it. It doesn’t hurt my feelings to know I will probably […]
Tommy Kane, the Advertiser Who’d Rather Sketch
Who is Tommy Kane?
My name is Tommy Kane. I was born. Went to catholic school for 12 years. Quickly learned I was going to hell. Attended art school in Buffalo. Got hired to be an illustrator for the Buffalo Evening News. Moved to New York. Got hired in one […]
Rejection is a large part of the business for writers and other artists, but what about those of you who crumple up your efforts, judge yourself harsher than any editor, or are so afraid of failure you freeze up? Talk to me about self-doubt.
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Wednesday I’ll share with you the interview that made me cry. For […]
Lance Reynald and MY PET VIRUS author, Shawn Decker
My Monday morning started like it does for most aspiring writers; let the dogs out, put on a pot of coffee and check my RSS reader. LitPark is always the first thing I read in the morning, it’s where us writers come to play. (Not greasing the […]
Subjective Truth
Wow, what comments this week! Thank you to all who responded: Rachel, who reminds us that “readers can sense if you’re holding back;” Myfanwy, who doesn’t worry if people recognize themselves in her writing as long she’s treated her characters with honesty and respect; Lance, who writes in order to conquer truth, even when […]
And her memoir about fear of catastrophe.
Amy Wilentz has written for The Nation, The New Republic, Newsday, Time, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, where she was the Jerusalem correspondent from 1995 to 1997. She is the author of two prize-winning books, THE RAINY SEASON: HAITI SINCE DUVALIER (Simon & Schuster, 1989) and […]
When writing non-fiction and memoir, do you worry about how you portray real people in your life? What have you risked to tell your truths? Or, if you’re someone who has protected others from the truths you know, what have you given up by remaining silent?
(Don’t think you have to be a writer to answer […]
Here is Angela Stubbs interviewing author/editor/publisher, Gina Frangello.
I think Gina Frangello is an expert. Most people have one solid area of expertise, but Gina isn’t most people. To start, she’s the Executive Editor at OTHER VOICES literary magazine where she molds chosen submissions into flawless pieces of literature with her keen eye. Knowing what […]
My kids have been back in school for one week, and already I got a call from the school nurse. Green-Hand Henderson was in the nurse’s office complaining of a “tingly tongue.”
“I checked for swelling and didn’t find any,” she said. “Green-Hand was worried he’d had an allergic reaction.”
“To what?”
“Oh, he was eating ants on […]
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