Writers Room member Charles Graeber reports from Japan in Bloomberg Businessweek.
To read, “After the Tsunami: Nothing to Do but Start Again” go to http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_18/b4226058170424.htm
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Lynn Schnurnberger Mine Are Spectacular! From Publishers Weekly: The coauthors of The Botox Diaries reprise their flighty, feel-good formula for women’s fiction with their second novel, about affluent divorced women friends living in a Westchester-style suburb of New York City. Sara, a caterer in her early 40s whose first husband, James, ran off to Patagonia [...]
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Lynn Schnurnberger The Best Laid Plans: A Novel From Publishers Weekly: Schnurnberger (The Botox Diaries, with Janice Kaplan) goes solo for a middle-age crazy tale of Tru–a stay-at-her-Park-Avenue-home-mom of twin teens whose husband loses his job in the financial meltdown–and glam sidekick Sienna, a TV anchor kicked to the curb for a younger face. The [...]
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Steve Friedman Driving Lessons: A Father, A Son, and the Healing Power of Golf When Steve Friedman was a child growing up in the suburbs of St. Louis, the game of golf was, to him, mysterious and dark. His father?s passion for it caused friction in his marriage and eluded the interest of his youngest [...]
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Steve Friedman Lost on Treasure Island: A Memoir of Longing, Love, and Lousy Choices in New York City ?Friedman has the rare ability to write effortless prose that is funny, touching and . . . profound.??The Washington Post When Midwesterner Steve Friedman arrived in Manhattan, the land of the quick and the mean, raring to [...]
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Mark Alpert The Omega Theory From Publishers Weekly: Science meets geopolitics meets religious fanaticism in Alpert’s breathless sequel to Final Theory. Science historian David Swift and his physicist wife, Monique Reynolds, go in search of their autistic adopted son, 19-year-old Michael Gupta, who, savantlike, has memorized Einstein’s unified field theory, after members of a religious [...]
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Deb Olin Unferth Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War From Publishers Weekly: In 1987, Unferth set off to Central America with her idealistic boyfriend, George, determined to join “the revolution.” Any revolution would do. In her deft account, Unferth retraces their journey, beginning in Guatemala and working north. [...]
“1 DAY WRITING WORKSHOPS IN FEB. / PLUS NEW WRITING EXERCISE APP”
http://jilldearman.blogspot.com/2011/01/1-day-writing-workshops-in-febnew.html
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Dear friends, Please join me and Jeff Lee (co-hosts) at Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, on Sunday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m. for selected readings from Many Mountains Moving. There will be six readers: Erik Ipsen, Minter Krotzer, Mindy Lewis, R.C. Ringer, Renato Rosaldo and Hal Sirowitz. The reading, which takes place in the [...]
