by Lynne Weiss | Mar 10, 2021 | What I'm Reading
This posting from Literary Ladies is about Virginia Woolf, but I find myself thinking about Tillie Olsen. I think they were from the same era–perhaps Olsen was a little younger. But of very different economic classes. I don’t think that Woolf was saying...
by Lynne Weiss | Feb 28, 2020 | What I'm Reading
A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it | Life and style | The Guardian There is nothing more sustaining to long-term creative work than time and space – and these things cost money Source: A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can...
by Lynne Weiss | Nov 5, 2019 | What I'm Reading
I just wish this article weren’t riddled with typos. Nonetheless, it’s well worth reading if you can overlook them. I listened to Kindred recently (per her advice, I listen to recorded books during my almost daily walks) and found it really compelling....
by Lynne Weiss | Nov 2, 2019 | What I'm Reading, Written by a Friend
I dread the question, “What’s your favorite book?” because for me it’s always changing. It’s often something I’ve read recently because it’s fresh in my mind and something about it surprised me. But one novel that has been on...
by Lynne Weiss | Jan 3, 2019 | What I'm Reading
I heard about Vera Tobin’s book Elements of Surprise on the Hidden Brain podcast. Shankar Vedantam was interviewing Tobin about her work analyzing the ways in which knowing/not knowing affects the unfolding of narrative and how writers/filmmakers plant seeds to...
