This week’s moment of literary joy comes from chapter 11 of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, which I’ve just been teaching in my Nineteenth-Century British Fiction class.
Here’s the passage:
Fanny agreed to it, and had the pleasure … Read More
On Fridays, I’m going to post prompts for writers who feel like trying something new to spark creativity. Most will work for both memoir writers and fiction writers.
Most will work for teachers to use with kids, too.
DID … Read More
I had another “small world” moment today when I came across George Ella Lyon’s delightful nonfiction picture book, Mother to Tigers, illustrated by Peter Catalanotto (Atheneum 2003).
This is another terrific picture book to buy for children who … Read More
On Fridays, I’m going to post prompts for writers who feel like trying something new to spark creativity. Most will work for both memoir writers and fiction writers.
Most will work for teachers to use with kids, too.
DID … Read More
While I was thinking about what I learned about Baltimore history from reading Laura Amy Schlitz’s The Hired Girl, I happened to come across another book that taught me more about Baltimore: Lesléa Newman’s adorable picture book, Ketzel, … Read More
This week’s moment of literary joy (well, really there are two today!) comes from Shana Burg’s Laugh With the Moon (Delacorte 2012), a middle-grade novel about an American adolescent, Clare.
Clare has recently lost her mother and is taken, unwillingly, … Read More
I’ve just been reading Laura Amy Schlitz’s The Hired Girl (Candlewick 2015) with great pleasure. It has a compelling plot, it gives us a glimpse into Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Baltimore, and Joan is such a terrific character—an utterly believable, … Read More
I’ll be posting here about the books I’m reading and writing and the history behind them.
If I have some exciting news about my writerly life, I may put that up sometimes too.
On Fridays, I’ll post writing prompts for … Read More