by Michelle Boring | Jun 23, 2015 | Creative Non-Fiction, Interviews, Writing
Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoirs The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious (C&R Press) and Miss New York Has Everything (Hatchette), and the author of a poetry collection Spot the Terrorist (Turning Point), and a number of limited-edition chapbooks....
by Michelle Boring | Jun 9, 2015 | Writing
William Zinsser passed away on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, at the age of 92. Zinsser was a writer, editor, and teacher. He wrote 19 books, the most well-known being On Writing Well. Zinsser used his love of writing and teaching to create a book that would help others...
by Tommy Zurhellen | Nov 19, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest, Writing
I. Conflict Writers are taught there is magic in the number three: your play needs three acts, your joke needs two priests and a rabbi, and your storybook needs Three Little Pigs to be complete. If that book was called The Forty-Seven Little Pigs, I guess there...
by Dan Cafaro | Dec 20, 2013 | Of Literary Interest, Publisher's Thoughts, Writing
Writer Ned Vizzini took his life yesterday at the age of 32. News of this tragedy fills my Facebook newsfeed. The writer community I engage with reacts in the only way it knows how, groping for words to make sense of the senseless, offering heartfelt condolences, and...
by Atticus Books | Dec 19, 2013 | Of Literary Interest, Press Releases, Writing
Whether the pedagogical goal is analysis, comparison, or simply exposure, literary magazines are the literature of the moment, and students benefit from such contemporary reading. – Nicholas Ripatrazone MADISON, NJ — Nicholas Ripatrazone’s essay,...
by Tommy Zurhellen | Oct 28, 2013 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest, Writing
I am walking along a wooded path that hugs the edge of one of Norway’s largest fjords, a few miles outside the city of Trondheim. This close to the Arctic Circle, there are only a few hours of daylight to see where you’re stepping, so I quicken my pace, trying to get...