The leaves that fell in February |
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Audre Lorde once said ... |
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.
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James Baldwin once said ... |
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Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Kwan Kei Lai |
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The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly |
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Kwan Kew Lai has a few upcoming events promoting her memoir, The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly:
March 23rd from 3-5 pm ET at Belmont High School (Belmont, MA)
March 23rd from 7-8 pm ET at Concord Library's Goodwin Forum (Concord, MA, register here)
March 30th at 6 pm ET at Boston University
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Marcus A. Nelson once said ... |
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Silence brings answers; you just have to listen. So I listened.
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Joseph Lezza |
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Joseph and A Recipe for Disaster
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"These are the things I remember./These are the things I miss./The smell, the feel, the weight/of his presence in this world;/a presence so great no absence/could wash it away."
Joseph Lezza's "Joseph" was recently published by Dear Reader Poetry while "A Recipe for Disaster" was recently published in Dollar Store Mag (page 52).
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Ann S. Epstein |
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Learn History Through Fiction
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"“The Swedes were very generous, considering that their own food and clothing were strictly rationed. Women could receive only one dress, one pair of shoes, and two pairs of stockings a year. No bra." Ann S. Epstein's recent Learn History Through Fiction posts focus on Holocaust survivors and what they endured before and after liberation.
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Carolyn R. Russell |
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Suburban
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"The vehicle also was the same vintage as mine, same make and model, same color: dark green. I’d wanted a lighter color for safety, but Carson had said it’d be too hard to keep looking clean. So green it was. Not worth fighting over." Enjoy Carolyn R. Russell's "Suburban" recently published by Tales from the Moonlit Path as well as "Shrinkwrapped," recently published by Brilliant Flash Fiction.
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Interview with Cordelia Biddle
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"My experience as an actor and my studies of the technique encouraged me to dig deep into motive and character development. Even the most problematic and heinous persons believe in their own credibility and viability." Find out more about Cordelia Biddle's career, writing process, and what's next in her recent interview with Annalisa Crawford.
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Interview with Joseph Lezza
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"I’m not advocating that people openly discuss something they’re not ready to, but I hope that by refusing to be ‘fine’ in this book, I might show someone how to feel less alone." Learn more about Joseph Lezza's new book, his entry into writing, and more in Roz Morris's latest interview.
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Review of Ann S. Epstein's One Person's Loss
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"In sections alternating between their points of view, Epstein paints a skillful picture of the tragedy of the Holocaust mirrored in miniature within each person. The use of a present-tense narrative voice in close third person for each of them gives an immediate sense of the looming and unstoppable horror of the war as each suspected loss is confirmed." Find out what Amanda Cockrell thinks about Ann S. Epstein's One Person's Loss.
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Review of Joseph Lezza's I'm Never Fine
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"The forms employed throughout shake up expectations as Lezza incorporates poetry, screenwriting, travelogue, letters, and the popular video game, The Oregon Trail. The variation with which Lezza writes keeps the reader on their toes." Read Hannah Ryder's recent review of Joseph Lezza's I'm Never Fine.
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Anamika Mishra once said ... |
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I love March as it gives me hope that new beginnings are always beautiful.
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by Kate Brandt |
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Hope for the Worst
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Ellie is twenty-four years old, stuck in a dead-end job, and questioning the meaning of life when she meets the much older Calvin. It’s as if her deepest wish has been granted. Star of the Buddhist teaching circuit in New York’s Greenwich Village, his wisdom is exactly what she’s been seeking.
When she becomes the center of his attention, it’s almost pure bliss… until it becomes clear that Calvin expects sex as part of the bargain. At first reluctant, Ellie gradually falls ever more deeply in love, until Calvin is all she can think about.
Hope for the Worst asks how far we will go for love, and what happens when we reach our limit.
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by Emilie-Noelle Provost |
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The River is Everywhere
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Sixteen-year-old honors student Ernest Benoit has always followed the rules. But when his best friend drowns on Cape Cod, he begins to question his family’s devout Catholicism, and he disrupts an Advent prayer service at his Catholic high school. Now his life will never be the same.
A blizzard leaves Ernest stranded in a depressed western Massachusetts mill town after he boards a bus to Manhattan to avoid being sent to a Jesuit boarding school. It’s the beginning of a months-long journey that leads him to rescue a young girl from an icy river, into the bed of a lonely middle-aged widow, and to the woodland cabin of Roland Laliberté, a recluse who can shoot with the accuracy of a sniper.
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by Walter B. Gibson and Morris N. Young |
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Houdini's Fabulous Magic
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Incredible escapes, fantastic sleight-of-hand-Houdini's most challenging performances are dramatically portrayed in Houdini's Fabulous Magic. Walter Gibson, co-author, was in close touch with Harry Houdini for a number of years before his death and worked with the master magician in preparing material for the book. It is with the aid of Houdini's own scrapbooks and notes that this book was written.
The spectacular highlights of Houdini's career are described--and explained--here. Included are the famous escapes: escapes from a padlocked milk can filled with water; from locked jail cells; from a water-filled Chinese torture cell while suspended upside down; from packing cases weighted underwater. Again, in this book, Houdini walks through a brick wall, vanishes a 10,000-pound elephant and is buried alive. Once more, Houdini and his wife Bessie mysteriously exchange places in a locked trunk-in three seconds!
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by Joseph Lezza |
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I'm Never Fine
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In I'm Never Fine, a collage memoir of essays and poetry, Joseph Lezza shouts in the dark from the backseat of a stranger’s car, a ditch on the Italian coast, a forest outside the arctic, and from the bottom of a shaving cream can.
When Joseph caught himself wishing necrotizing skin infections upon unhurried retirees in the self checkout lane, and fantasized about loud-talking commuters making quick friends with the underside of a steamroller, he began to wonder if he was fine.
Of all the things Joseph Lezza could have been, he certainly wasn't fine.
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Martha Engber's Winter Light Now Available as an Audiobook
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Though a smart, beautiful kid, Mary Donahue is a motherless girl raised by an uneducated, alcoholic father within an extended family of alcoholics and addicts. Aware that she’s sinking, she’s desperate to save herself and so reaches out to an unlikely source, Kathleen, a nice, normal kid from English class.
But when the real storm hits, the full force of a harsh adult world almost buries Mary. Only then does she learn that the only difference between life and death is knowing when to grasp an extended hand.
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