November 2012
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Books by Erin Havel’s Bed
Erin Havel thought the American health care system was fine until insurance companies proved the system was broken. In 2004 she began treatment on an AVM (arteriovenous malformation), and in 2007 she was diagnosed with CML (chronic myelogenous leukemia). During this time she went through tremendous struggle with different health insurance companies, became an unexpected advocate [...]
What Should Writers Look for in a College?
Not long ago a friend asked me for advice for her son, who’s about to graduate from high school and is considering colleges. He’s wondering how to choose the best undergraduate program for an aspiring young writer. My initial impulse was to suggest that my friend have her son committed for inpatient treatment until he [...]
The Patience to Teach
Taken for Granite: My Life in Kayos By Ross Howell Ross followed a career in academic fundraising, public relations, book publishing, and marketing after receiving his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He’s now freelancing non-fiction and fiction, and teaching at Elon University. He lives in Greensboro, NC, with his wife, Mary Leigh, English cocker spaniel [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
In this best of all seasons, we are especially grateful for librarians and booksellers and teachers and avid readers and writers and all the other people who love books and the power of well chosen words to enrich lives.
The Thanksgiving Flock
By Jeffrey Abrahams As Thanksgiving approaches, the groaning table has been turned on me and I find myself looking over my shoulder. I am being stalked by wild turkeys. If you’ve never seen a wild turkey before, except on the label of a bottle of fine bourbon, let me explain the difference between the domesticated, [...]
Books by Ross Howell’s Bed
Ross followed a career in academic fund-raising, public relations, book publishing, and marketing after receiving his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1978. He’s now freelancing non-fiction and fiction, and teaching at Elon University. He lives in Greensboro, NC, with his wife, Mary Leigh, English cocker spaniel diva, Pinot, and rescued pit bull Lab mix Sam. [...]
Writers and Languages
Learning Another Language Can Only Improve Your Game By Eric Olsen A few weeks ago the writers’ website Redroom.com invited readers to blog about learning another language, the assumption being, I suppose, that writers are multilingual, or should be. Certainly there are all sorts of reasons why a writer should know more than one language. [...]
Books by Catherine Gammon’s Bed
You saw them here first: Catherine enthusiastically introduces the next generation of good reads, plus her current faves. By the bed now is Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson, essays based on a series of lectures given at Yale. Robinson’s intention is to challenge widespread cultural assumptions about the divide between what is taken for [...]
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November Calendar
Allan Gurganus‘ essay celebrating John Cheever’s centenary, “Days with John Cheever,” is in the November 8 edition of the New York Review of Books. Allan says he’s proud of the piece which is deeply rooted in Iowa Workshop days and lore.Joe Haldeman just put the finishing touches on his latest novel, Work Done for Hire. Joy Harjo is among the first [...]
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