The Next Big Thing

I am delighted to be a part of The Next Big Thing, the “authors and the authors who love them” weblog chain in which I answer questions about what I’m working on and get to introduce you to two gifted friends and writers. Ruth Ozeki tagged me for this, and her...

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Last thoughts on Goddard

As I put the snow and icicles of Goddard behind me for another semester, I was thinking about the question of whether one can teach writing. I don’t know if we taught it, or whether we simply lived it, all together, for the last eight days. I come home filled by my...

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Seeing

Seeing

We walked in the woods at Goddard, looking for a cliff to look out over, and we found different way to see - through Bhanu's cracked, taped phone.  What she says, on her own blog (click the picture), is this: I know that it is important to veer, and keep veering,...

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Why we write

Last week, at a conference on young adult literature, key note speaker Beth Kephart (multi-award winning writer of fourteen books and more on the way), argued for the "radical significance" of stories in our new, "Sandy-Irene-Katrina world...of fiscal cliffs and...

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GO: A Community Curated Open Studio Project

GO: A Community Curated Open Studio Project

  Come to Sunset Park! On September 8 & 9, the New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is teaming up with the Brooklyn Museum’s GO Project, a community-curated open studio weekend event taking place in neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn. There...

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