Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: “Is it you?”
This is the third installment of my “countdown to publication” for the members of shewrites.com A few months ago, I showed the book jacket of
November 7, 2013
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: PLATFORMING
This is the second installment of the “countdown” posts I’m doing for shewrites.com. In my last post I chronicled the long and winding road I
October 31, 2013
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: The Journey
I’m posting four installments on the amazing website shewrites.com about the imminent publication of my new memoir. The countdown is a regular rubric where members
October 24, 2013
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Difficult Women
Say a woman is “difficult,” and chances are that she will not get the job, the promotion, or the invitation to join the club. The
September 12, 2013
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Memoirs by Men, or why bother?
Of course, not. What editor worth his salt would choose to group reviews of memoirs written by men under that title? No one. But Memoirs
August 28, 2013
Paris Memoir
Same boyfriend, different life.
We memoirists like to think our lives are uniquely ours, but often it turns out not to be true–at least not wholly true. I’ve been
July 4, 2013
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What’s in a name?
A few days ago I received an email from a high school friend I haven’t seen for many years. She said that on a recent
June 13, 2013
Noted
If Emily Dickinson tweeted…
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you―Nobody―Too? (c. 1861) Despite Dickinson’s well-known gift for concision, these lines and the ones that follow in the poem,
June 8, 2013
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Am I still that person?
A few weeks ago, my friend and former jogging partner Ellen Sweet sent me this snapshot that she had just discovered while scanning old photographs
May 17, 2013
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Brooding
One morning last week when I was walking around the reservoir in Central Park with a friend we came upon these two ducks. The sight
May 9, 2013
Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books, the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need now, in my eighties, to imagine what new writing might be.