Last week I had the chance to participate in two separate discussions about David Shields’ Reality Hunger: a Manifesto, the first with members of the Working from Life: Writing Creative Nonfiction workshop and the second with two members of the Future of Publishing Think Tank (FOPTT). Shields’ book contends that shifts in perception—of self, of [...]
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Posted in Blogger, Books we're reading, creative non fiction, Fiction on October 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »
WAW Recommends: Saman by Ayu Utami
Posted in Books we're reading, Writers at Work Recommends, tagged Ayu Utami, Bronwyn Mauldin, fiction, Indonesia, Islam, justice, novel, Saman, Skylight Books, Writers at Work on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saman by Ayu Utami translated by Pamela Allen recommended by Bronwyn Mauldin Saman is the story of how a Catholic priest in the world’s most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, becomes a human rights activist called “Saman.” Author, journalist Ayu Utami, turns the familiar tale of the crusader for justice on its head by folding Saman’s [...]
WAW Recommends: The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr
Posted in Books we're reading, Writers at Work Recommends, tagged Cheryl Klein, fiction, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Nina Revoyr, novel, silent film, Skylight Books, The Age of Dreaming, Writers at Work on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr Recommended by Cheryl Klein Over the course of three novels, Nina Revoyr has chronicled girl basketball players, civil unrest in Watts, and now the silent film era: The Age of Dreaming is the story of Jun Nakayama, a Japanese American star of the silents who—when a new part [...]
Dark fiction
Posted in Books we're reading on October 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After a long period of not having time for pleasure reading, this summer I read three novels, each of which were fairly dark. My favorite of these was Janet Fitch’s Paint It Black, which is about a young woman trying to cope with the suicide of her boyfriend. It’s a beautifully written meditation on grief, [...]
