Reading & Conversation: Elyse Guttenberg
Reading & Conversation Series: Elyse Guttenberg Recorded Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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Revisiting His Dash to Stay Still: Pico Iyer on the Craft and Life of a Restless Writer
A guest post by author and North Words Program Director Daniel Henry. (First Posted in May, 2018). As Time magazine’s travel correspondent since 1986, Pico Iyer has visited nearly every corner of the globe in search of the astonishing, remarkable, bizarre, and profound. He’s the author of bestselling books including Video Night in Kathmandu and The Global
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Lisa Alexia | Crossing Borders: Review of Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth
Editor’s Note: Thank you to Lisa Alexia for this review of Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth. Bathsheba will be teaching a nonfiction workshop for 49 Writers during her time in Anchorage. You can sign up on our web site. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, by Bathsheba Demuth (W.W. Norton & Co,
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Jamey Bradbury | No Accounting for Taste: Finding Form in What You Like
What we like can do so much for our writing, including challenging us to come at our fiction in novel ways. So don’t segregate your likes into the “for fun” column and forget about them when you get down to work. Investigate your likes. Interrogate them. Ask yourself: Why do you like what you like—and how can it help you become a better writer?
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Andromeda Romano-Lax | Page One Rewrite, Part One
In August 2017, I had one of the strangest experiences of my writing life. I opened a file in a folder associated with a novel I’d given up on five years earlier, read a few unfamiliar paragraphs, What’s this?, and then a few pages more, I know I wrote it; I just don’t remember writing it. I kept going all the way to the end of the chapter, and found myself intrigued, What the heck is going to happen next?
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Dan Branch & Katie Bausler | 49 Writers Spring Retreat Reflections
Sometimes writers need to get away from the people and things that fill their days so they can create. Each spring and fall, 49 Writers secures space at the National Shrine of Saint Therese for a writer’s retreat. The May 2019 retreat took place in The Lodge, a two-story log building that can sleep 24
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Literary Roundup | January 18-24, 2019
ANCHORAGE | 49 Writers presents, The Situation and the Story with Frank Soos February 8, 9, 10, 2019 This class has three consecutive sessions (one hour lunch break on Saturday) Anchorage Community House, 3502 Spenard Road, 99503 Members or full time students: $185 | General enrollment: $205 Cap: 12 | All experience levels | Registration: http://49writers.web907.com/soos19 One of
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Literary Roundup | December 14-20, 2018
It’s been a bumpy couple of weeks in Alaska! We hope everyone in the earthquake zone is feeling safe and more settled. The week after the quake, we hosted Yukon poet and novelist Joanna Lilley in Juneau, Cordova, and Anchorage, and she presented lovely readings, craft talks, and well-attended workshops in all three cities. Joanna
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Spotlight on Alaska Books | Letters from Happy Valley by Dan L Walker
Imagine driving into the woods on a dirt road you have never traveled, looking for a boarded-up cabin, and hoping that it might be a shelter for your family after six weeks on the road. The grass and fireweed is head high, and only the roof is visible from the dirt trace someone called a
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Spotlight on Alaska Books | It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska by Adrienne Lindholm
I crested the last green rise and was level with the turquoise lake and the slim twist of water flowing out of it. Here the creek is so narrow that I jumped over it. I turned my gaze toward the cirque in front of me, rimmed by cliffs on three sides. Dall sheep traversed vertical
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