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One Last Sweet Summer Read
All books published posthumously come to us shrink-wrapped in heartache, from a voice we know has already been extinguished. There is more sadness still in a subgroup of this category: books that come from manuscripts abandoned during wartime or hidden for safekeeping and discovered when the fighting is over, when the text is all that's left of the author.A brief list of such books: The Diary of Anne Frank, Irene Nemirovsky Suite Francaise, Charlotte Salomon's autobiographical notebook-size…See More
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Elizabeth Benedict commented on the blog post '"Only Disconnect" with Hemingway's Notebook'
Thanks Nancy and Mary for reading and for sharing your computer -free -zone stories. It's harder and harder to find these places to disconnect because of WiFi, but lovely to think of how valuable they are to all of us (some of us?).
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I found SheWrites on twitter I think. Haven't had as much time to play on it and use the many resources but have met some very interesting people here.
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Sorry it's taken me 1000 years to get back to you. I' haven't been here much lately!
Thank you so much for your kind words. !
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Thanks for your note. I invented my name - not my first name, but I ditched my awful last name when I was about 23 and picked Benedict - It started as a joke. Someone with that name was an editor I was corresponding with, and my boyfriend said, Liz…
Nancy E. Frank commented on the blog post '"Only Disconnect" with Hemingway's Notebook'
Gloucester, at a friend's country house. It's a computer-free zone: for electronics we have cable TV (good for the kids) and a one-line, attached-to-the-wall telephone. We barely see any people,unless we go to the grocery store, and the…
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Nice!
"Only Disconnect" with Hemingway's Notebook
Call it going cold turkey. Earlier this summer, I knew I had to seize -- and slightly alter -- E.M. Forster's famous command, "Only connect..." So off I went to a cabin in the woods of Maine with no Internet or cell phone service in order to "only disconnect." I needed stillness to make headway on the novel I've been writing in fits and starts for years, and the cabin and its setting -- 30 foot-tall pine trees in every direction -- were serene, beautiful, and eerily out of touch.But when I…See More
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Hi there--just wanted to drop by your page and invite you personally to our first-ever She Writes Boston meetup, celebrating She Writes' one-year anniversary! The Boston gathering will be hosted by none other than Jaclyn Friedman, author of…
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Yes, thanks for this interview. I'd never seen E.S. talking. Just have had the great pleasure of her books.
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Today at 11 am EST, I'll be a guest on WBAI's hour-long show, WIsdom Years, talking about my new anthology, Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives. If you're in NYC, tune the dial to 99.5FM. If you're elsewhere, you can listen on the computer by going to www.wbai.org, and clicking on LISTEN HERE. 11am - to Noon, Wed. Jan. 6. Thanks!See More
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thanks so much for your kind words and interest. No, press kit's not on-line but there is a book blog with lots of info on it, and I can have the publicist send you a press kit if you give me either your email address. Be happy to. Welcome to…
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- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (editor and contributor, Oct. 2009 Free Press/Simon & Schuster); The Practice of Deceit (2006 Mariner; 2005 Houghton Mifflin); The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers (2002 Owl; Henry Holt); Almost (2002 Mariner; 2001 Houghton Mifflin); Safe Conduct (1993 Farrar Staus & Giroux); The Beginner's Book of Dream (Knopf 1988; Bantam 1989); Slow Dancing (Knopf 1985; McGrawHill 1986).
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- The Huffington Post, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Allure, Daedalus, and many others.
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Journalism
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- Books
- Services I offer to other writers:
- I am a writing coach, a private writing teacher, and a first-rate reader of fiction and non-fiction manuscripts of any length. My company, Global Editing USA/UK, can be reached here: www.globaleditingusauk.com.
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- no
- My professional associations:
- Authors Guild, PEN
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Not Your Grandmother's Miami - on a Budget
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I went to Miami to escape the frigid weather and got a big surprise. Miami vice? What about Miami nice? And I did it on the cheap & wonderful. Here's how.
Sarah Palin and the Tiger Mom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
What do Sarah Palin and Amy Chau have in common? More than either of them would imagine. I try to answer that question here. Thanks for taking a look.
One Last Sweet Summer Read
Posted on August 21, 2010 at 6:45am 0 Comments 0 Likes
All books published posthumously come to us shrink-wrapped in heartache, from a voice we know has already been extinguished. There is more sadness still in a subgroup of this category: books that come from manuscripts abandoned during wartime or hidden for safekeeping and discovered when the fighting is over, when the text is all that's left of the author.
A brief list of such books: The Diary of Anne Frank, Irene Nemirovsky Suite Francaise, Charlotte Salomon's… Continue
A brief list of such books: The Diary of Anne Frank, Irene Nemirovsky Suite Francaise, Charlotte Salomon's… Continue
"Only Disconnect" with Hemingway's Notebook
Posted on August 12, 2010 at 4:48am 3 Comments 0 Likes
Call it going cold turkey. Earlier this summer, I knew I had to seize -- and slightly alter -- E.M. Forster's famous command, "Only connect..." So off I went to a cabin in the woods of Maine with no Internet or cell phone service in order to "only disconnect." I needed stillness to make headway on the novel I've been writing in fits and starts for years, and the cabin and its setting -- 30 foot-tall pine trees in every direction -- were serene, beautiful, and eerily out of touch.
But… Continue
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Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 11:49am on August 12, 2010,
Marilyn Fried said… - I found SheWrites on twitter I think. Haven't had as much time to play on it and use the many resources but have met some very interesting people here.
- At 2:57pm on June 21, 2010,
Kamy Wicoff said… - Hi there--just wanted to drop by your page and invite you personally to our first-ever She Writes Boston meetup, celebrating She Writes' one-year anniversary! The Boston gathering will be hosted by none other than Jaclyn Friedman, author of "Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (and one of Publishers' Weekly's Top 100 Books of 2009)," and visionary leader of Women, Action Media (WAM!). At the meetup writers will take part in the She Writes "Book Communion," where attendees arrive with one book, their own or another She Writers', new or gently used, and leave with another book as a meaningfully way to support one another's work. We will also be blowing out a candle and making a wish for our upcoming writing year -- along with She Writers gathering in 16 cities around the country. I hope you will be part of this historic (well, at least kind of cool) occasion, and RSVP now to Jaclyn here.
- At 5:22pm on December 14, 2009,
Elizabeth Benedict said… - thanks so much for your kind words and interest. No, press kit's not on-line but there is a book blog with lots of info on it, and I can have the publicist send you a press kit if you give me either your email address. Be happy to. Welcome to She Writes. You sound incredibly industrious and prolific! I like the title of your upcoming book.
Kind regards,
liz
- At 9:36am on December 14, 2009,
Amy Lou Jenkins said… - Read your rave review--I'd love to feature Mentors, Muses & Monsters at anthologiesonline.com. Is your press kit online?
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