Forget Golden Apples. There’s no greater reward for a teacher than seeing a student make good with her talent, so I couldn’t have been more pleased than to read former student Nancy Slagle’s “Fahrenheit Be Darned,” subtitled “A Fairbanks Woman discovers the joy and pain of running in winter,” in the December/January issue of Alaska Magazine. Nice work, Nancy!
In the December 3 issue of the Anchorage Press, there’s nice coverage of Maia Nolan, one of two literary recipients of the Rasmuson Award. Maia blogs at ownthesidewalk.com.
In reading about Idaho author Anthony Doerr, I discovered a new anthology edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey called State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America. Seeing the book was billed as “original writing on all 50 states by 50 of our finest novelists, journalists, and essayists,” I was eager to discover who they’d chosen to write about Alaska. The contributor is non-Alaskan John Greenberg.