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Tag Archives: Rachel Kadish
Roundup: Reading it By Ear
In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines and websites, centered on a certain theme to help … Continue reading
Roundup: April Fools’ Day! The Literary Hoax
In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines, centered on a certain theme to help you jump-start your week. This … Continue reading
Posted in Roundups
Tagged April Fools, Chronicle, flash mob, Hoax, Huffington Post, Joke, Lit Drift, New York Times, Prank, Rachel Kadish, Trick
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Roundup: Women’s Voices
As we launch a new blog format for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain theme to … Continue reading
Posted in Roundups
Tagged Anne Grey Fischer, Christine Sneed, Patricia Caspers, Peter Kline, Rachel Kadish, Thomas Lee
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Orthodoxy, Humor, and the Bookstore of Your Dreams: An Interview with Michael Lowenthal
To open any of Michael Lowenthal’s novels is to be struck by the visceral power of his images. From a woman’s “depthless smile” to a man with a belly like a rucksack, from flags snapping in the wind at a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Writing
Tagged interviews, Michael Lowenthal, Rachel Kadish, The Paternity Test, University of Wisconsin Press
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Weekly Roundup: Inspiration
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. This week we’re introducing a new roundup post that explores the archives. … Continue reading
On Improvisation: a Farewell (For Now) to Blogging
When asked about the experience of improvising Two Thousand Year Old Man with Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner famously said, “I always tried for something that would force him to go into a panic—because a brilliant mind in panic is a … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, creative writing, goodbye, Guest Bloggers, Improvisation, panicing, Rachel Kadish
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On Quietness: an Interview with Brian Morton
It wasn’t long into my semester in Brian Morton’s graduate fiction workshop at NYU when I realized that the understated manner in which he led the class was misleading. On the page, that same writer who led class so unobtrusively … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged Brian Morton, Guest Bloggers, interviews, novel into film, Rachel Kadish
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On Generosity of Thought—a Writer’s Gifts
On the June afternoon when I first joined Lesley’s MFA faculty, during a break between meetings, I carried my coffee to an outdoor table where several other faculty members were sitting and asked if I could join them. Wayne Brown, … Continue reading
Posted in The Writing Life, Writing
Tagged correspondence, friendship, Guest Bloggers, letter writing, letters, Rachel Kadish, Wayne Brown
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The Physics of Fiction, the Music of Philosophy: an Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s astonishments as a philosopher and as a novelist are too numerous to list here. Already launched in her career as a philosophy professor, she reached a moment in her own life when philosophical inquiry no longer felt … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, Guest Bloggers, interview, novel, Rachel Kadish, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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Reading Devoutly, Writing Devoutly
Although I’m not religious, there are days when I wish I could teleport my writing students back for just a few sessions of my childhood religious-study classes. Surely, those teachers who once schooled me in old-fashioned text learning didn’t think … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Writing
Tagged Guest Bloggers, heritage, Rachel Kadish, religion, Torah
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