by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo I used to really love New Year’s Eve. The craziness of Christmas was behind me (I worked retail in those days), and it was a night to get super gussied up, go out and have simple and unadorned fun. I lived in Boston when I was in my twenties and New [...]
Just in time for the holidays, Kate Robinson shares with us a fun and sweet taste of her writing process! Guest blogger, Kate Robinson If it weren’t for my laptop, I’d be one of those writers you see in films from the 1980s. There would be a manual typewriter and stack of white paper on [...]
Guest blogger, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa I love to walk through the Golden Gate Park to the ocean. When I reach the water, I say, “The ocean looks like an aluminum roof,” or “The ocean looks like a snow lion,” or “The ocean is so big, as big as this strange feeling inside I cannot give [...]
by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo I keep a list of words and phrases. A little collection. The words come from anywhere and everywhere: something overheard, a commercial on the radio, a snippet from the news, a little something from an ad in a magazine. Something from a dream. Something from anywhere. Sometimes it is one lone [...]
W.W. Norton & Company, 2010 Don’t forget the book giveaway! In January, Her Circle Ezine will feature an UpClose Interview with Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010). Read the UpClose Interview and discuss this [...]
Welcome to this week’s featured writing prompt. Enjoy! and don’t forget to post your finished work in the comments section. Photo by Daniela Llano
by Laura Cude Sometimes someone will recommend something to me with so much enthusiasm that I can’t wait to get my hands on it. I have prepared myself to be blown away and to discover a new hero only to be met with an artistic anti climax when I find myself unable to figure out [...]
by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo Today is Christmas Eve and for those of us who celebrate Christmas, it’s the culmination of a really busy, and for me, lovely season. I have always loved Christmas and everything about it. My mother made it fun and special for my sister and me and the sentiments the season evokes [...]
by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo Several weeks ago, we featured a guest blog post from several Fictionaut writers. I am thrilled that they were kind enough to extend me an invitation to join. Now that the frenzied NaNoWriMo-filled month of November is behind me and the busyness of the holiday season is winding down, I am [...]
Guest blogger, Catherine Kirkwood People ask me about the inspiration for the characters in my first novel, Cut Away. I explain: it began with questions about an important idea, a fascination with the expansive opportunities to physically become, on the outside, what we experience ourselves to be on the inside. Were there profound differences between [...]
In her book Exhibiting Blackness, Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, analyzes the curatorial strategies, challenges, and public and critical receptions of the most significant exhibitions of African American art and culture in American art museums.
It is hard not to believe we’re in a time of empowerment of those less powerful, and to be swept up in the fervor escalating the world over. In 2011, we witnessed the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests and most recently, one of the largest protests of women in Egypt’s long history against the [...]
Her Circle takes a close look at the International Museum of Women and its efforts to promote, support and curate the art of women from around the globe: “Although women in the Western world continue to struggle for purchase in the artistic realm, in other parts of the world voices go completely unheard—are entirely silenced. There is no outlet for them. Here is where the International Museum of Women seeks to fill the gaps and build bridges….”
Heather Child looks at roles for female characters in Disney-Pixar’s latest creations and asks, “Why are films with their feet firmly in the twenty-first century still struggling with something as basic as gender representation?
In her latest novel, Carol Anshaw presents us with a sizable group of friends, and an unforgiveable accident. She ensnares us and them in a net of gut-wrenching guilt, twisted families, fierce addictions, love, lust and everyday life. Carry the One then proceeds to lure us into closely following these people for thirty years. MaryAnne Kolton speaks to the novelist in this UpClose interview.
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Dutch artist Elis Vermuelen’s Global Burrows Project is an exploration of the places we inhabit and what we leave behind. From the beaches of the Netherlands to a disused house in the American Midwest, Vermuelen’s two-year journey opens a window onto our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our surroundings.
Colombian writer of creative non-fiction, Adriana Pàramo reads from her recently published book Looking for Esperanza, which won the Social Justice and Equality Award in Creative Nonfiction in 2011, and discusses the issues raised in the book with Claire Hart.
Eco Arts Notebook examines Polly Higgins, author of Eradicating Ecocide—exposing the corporate and political practices destroying the planet and proposing the laws needed to eradicate ecocide, and her work with exposing the world to the idea and concerns about Ecocide.
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