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I so admire how you dive deeper and deeper with every book into our innermost lives and outermost concerns.
Thank you for all the…"
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Marilyn Yalom commented on the blog post 'Writing as Adventure'
"Thanks for your kind words. She Writes reminds us that sisterhood is still powerful and can make writing a shared endeavor. The more we take pride in each other's success, the better for all of us!
Marilyn
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Writing as Adventure
For me, the greatest thing about writing is the process itself. I love getting up in the morning with the next sentence in my head. Or even a fuzzy idea that has taken firmer shape during the night while I was asleep. Best of all is the sense of adventure--that I don’t know at the start exactly where the book will take me, what…See More
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Writing as Adventure
For me, the greatest thing about writing is the process itself. I love getting up in the morning with the next sentence in my head. Or even a fuzzy idea that has taken firmer shape during the night while I was asleep. Best of all is the sense of adventure--that I don’t know at the start exactly where the book will take me, what…See More
Marilyn Yalom commented on the blog post 'Lost (and Found) in Translation'
"This is a problem I have been groping with for most of a lifetime. My latest book, "How the French Invented Love," to be published this month by HarperCollins, has many examples of places where I opted for the French word because the…"
Marilyn Yalom liked Anne Trager's blog post Lost (and Found) in Translation
Marilyn Yalom liked Meg Waite Clayton's blog post [1st Books] Heather Barbieri: Not According to Plan
Marilyn Yalom commented on the blog post 'Never Mind a Room, We Need a NEWSPAPER of Our Own'
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Meg, you are so right! Our local paper, SF Chronicle, is even worse in its treatment of women writers. Its Sunday book review section has an average ratio of 5 males to 1 woman author (yes, I've been counting). Yet I…"
Marilyn Yalom commented on the blog post 'The Secret Life of Poets: Two Sides of Emily Dickinson'
"Lovely to read these two poems side by side, the first long-familiar and the second less so. Thank you, Alicia, for this, and for your own poetry which I have admired for a very long time. Marilyn"
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- Who I am:
- theamericanrestingplace.com, myalom.com
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory, A History of the Breast, A History of the Wife, Birth of the Chess Queen, The American Resting Place
- My writing is:
- Nonfiction
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- yes
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- San Francisco Diane Middlebrook women writers' salon
- My professional associations:
- Senior Scholar, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
In addition to the books I have authored, I have also edited and co-edited a number of books:
Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions (with Barrie Thorne)
Women Writers of the West Coast (with photographer Margo Davis)
Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century (with Diane Middlebrook)
Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender (with Susan Bell)
Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges (with Laura Carstensen)
Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions (with Barrie Thorne)
Women Writers of the West Coast (with photographer Margo Davis)
Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century (with Diane Middlebrook)
Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender (with Susan Bell)
Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges (with Laura Carstensen)
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Writing as Adventure
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 6:00pm 6 Comments 3 Likes
For me, the greatest thing about writing is the process itself. I love getting up in the morning with the next sentence in my head. Or even a fuzzy idea that has taken firmer shape during the night while I was asleep. Best of all is the sense of adventure--that I don’t know at the start exactly where the book will…
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Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:25am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Hi Meg!
I'll be there on March 22 and will be happy to toast your success!
Marilyn Yalom
Comment Wall (16 comments)
- At 1:29pm on November 30, 2009,
Wendy Nelson Tokunaga said… - Marilyn, Yes would love to be part of the salon. I just sent you a friend request and message with my email address so you can put me on your list. Thank you!
- At 2:00pm on October 27, 2009,
Renate Stendhal said… - Dear Marilyn, lovely to hear from you! Thank you so much. Yes to the January Salon... I am eager to share my excitement over the new Gertrude Stein edition and the fact that she will soon get so much attention, once again. This is what's coming up:
THE STEIN FAMILY AS COLLECTORS exhibition Paris, NYC and San Francisco, Fall ’10 – Spring ‘11
SEEING GERTRUDE STEIN, exhibition and programming, The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, Spring ’11, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, Fall ‘11
So there is time to be inventive!
I hope you are enjoying my Gertie blog "Why Do Something If It Can Be Done"...
Warm regards, Renate
- At 3:02pm on October 11, 2009,
katieorenstein said… - Hi Marilyn,
I'll definitely keep you posted about March. What part of the Bay Area are you in? If you are East Bay, I'm at Saul's for breakfast on the 24th and 26th form 9am-11am--that's an open invitation to join!
katie
- At 7:01pm on October 10, 2009, katieorenstein said…
- And... just as I hit send, I scrolled down and saw that I had already responded to your post, back in the summer. Ah technology. Hope you are well...
- At 6:59pm on October 10, 2009, katieorenstein said…
- Hi Marilyn,
This is a slow motion response to your summer email. We work with Stanford and the Clayman institute very closely - they are are earliest and one of our most enthusiastic partners! We were out there last month, and will be out for a week in mid March 2010 -- if you are interested in joining, let us (or Lori at Clayman) know. We'll also be in the Bay Area delivering a public session on October 25, and if you are interested in joining that I'd love to see you there. (Info at www.theopedproject.org) Katie
- At 9:16pm on July 28, 2009,
Victoria Zackheim said… - Marilyn, sorry if there's been an email snafu. I'm at vdzack@aol.com
- At 5:08pm on July 26, 2009,
helen epstein said… - Actually Marilyn I don't think we've ever met but, like Kathryn Harrison I've followed you from afar and have met some of your students as well as writers from your area. There are two of us writer Helen Epsteins; we receive one another's email, hotel reservations and sometimes royalty checks from the NY Times Magazine for which we've both written. ! now write memoir and continue to do journalism online (www.theartsfuse.com) . Children of the Holocaust was my first book. I also wrote a biography of Joseph Papp and a book about three generations of women in my Czech-Jewish family.
- At 10:48am on July 23, 2009, katieorenstein said…
- Hi Marilyn, so nice to hear from you! Yes, we work regularly with Stanford, and the Clayman Institute hosts our seminars there. And... we have a seminar in San Francisco for the public on August 8, followed by a happy hour at the Hyatt hotel from 5.30-7pm, for alums, advisers and interested people. We'll raise a glass and say a few words about our successes and future plans. Please join us! (For the seminar you can register on our site, www.theopedproject.org; for the happy hour, you are welcome to just show up, or contact laura@theopedproject.org for further details). Hope to see you. Katie
- At 6:41am on July 22, 2009, helen epstein said…
- So nice to see you here on shewrites. I just joined this morning.
Helen Epstein in Massachusetts
- At 12:59pm on July 20, 2009, Renate Stendhal said…
- Lovely to hear back from you, Marilyn. Some messages don't seem to register on my page but I wanted to make sure you get my response. To be continued in person, soon...
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