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The anthology A STRANGER AMONG US: STORIES OF CROSS CULTURAL COLLISION AND CONNECTION, edited by She Writes member Stacy Bierlein, is full of international voices, both female and male, and is a great sampler for discovering women writers whose book…
And check out Dolen and WENCH on the Fiction Section of The Nervous Breakdown this week--a great self-interview with the author, and an excerpt from this compelling and provocative book! www.thenervousbreakdown.com
There's a ghettoizing effect that occurs in literature, just like in society....And I think we have to be more adament in our demands not to be ghettoized, whether we're women writers or writers of color.
Jessica, you're absolutely right about writers of color, yes. Other than a select few who have won major prizes straight off the bat, like Jhumpa Lahiri or something, the "specificity" of writers of color's audience is probably even more extreme tha…
It's a perception I find problematic for a lot of reasons, but it's a widespread perception.
When talking about the trend that "men write for everyone, women write for women," I think the same phenomenon applies to writers of color. Why is it that literature written by whites is for everyone--but an African-American writer writes for a blac…
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Last week, I attended Margaret Atwood's last United States event for Year of the Flood. The dramatic reading (equipped with a choir singing hymns Atwood wrote for the book) took place at Chicago's Merle Reskin theater, and was so packed that I waite…
I've had a mixed response to this controversy. On the one hand, it seems clearly absurd to me that so few writers (even on the list of 100) were women, and that out of the top 10 books only 1 was written by anything other than a white man. How can o…
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- Please list any books you have written, or anthologies you have contributed to, and any scripts or plays you have authored, so that we may feature them in our bookstore and on the main page.
- My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus);
Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass);
A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection (OV Books);
Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader (Soft Skull)
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- Huffington Post-Chicago
The Nervous Breakdown (www.thenervousbreakdown.com)
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- Fiction
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- Are you currently part of a writers' group or a writers' salon?
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- I am the founder and Executive Editor at Other Voices Books-Chicago and teach at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies
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Straddling the Political and the Subjective (or "Why the PW Top 10 List Has the Right to Offend, but Is Still Offensive")
Last week, I attended Margaret Atwood's last United States event for Year of the Flood. The dramatic reading (equipped with a choir singing hymns Atwood wrote for the book) took place at Chicago's Merle Reskin theater, and was so packed that I waited in line for an hour and a half to get Atwood--one of my favorite writers since college--to sign a book. Atwood, as most avid readers know, is not only the recipient of a Booker Prize and numerous other prestigious awards, but is more than a dabbler… Continue
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 10:50pm — 5 Comments
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- At 7:33pm on March 8, 2010,
Kamy Wicoff said… - Gina, wow, "A Stranger Among Us" looks amazing and was an absolutely perfect recommendation for today's community action. Thank you so much for sharing it -- I am going to leave a note on Stacy's page right now. :)
Warm best,
Kamy
- At 10:48am on November 13, 2009,
Kamy Wicoff said…
- Gina, your comment on Ermelino's email to She Writes was one of the most thought-provoking, nuanced and fair I've read on this whole thing so far. I am really glad you called attention to the personal piece of this, in defense of an reviewer's right to stand by her books (or, ha, her men in this case), and I wonder if you'd consider doing a blog post on the subject today so that we can call attention to it when we compile the list of Day of Action posts tomorrow. Thanks for being here. And thanks for buying a book today.
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Maybe your parents are just plain stupid. That's my first response. Just thank goodness there are other people in the world to appreciate you. And you yourself to appreciate you! And YES, writing is a saving grace, for sure and certain. It's saved m…
Yay, Nicole! I'm trying to remember if that was one of the ones I applied to or not. Did Wally Lamb go there? If it's the same place, someone I know also went there and she described it to me as having been "a pink cloud experience." I'm sure it wil…
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