Thanks to Ramunė Jonaitienė for this review in Tėviškės Žiburiai, the Lithuanian-Canadian weekly newspaper. Among the phrases I’m really grateful for is her description of my tone as “calm.” Ačiū, TŽ.
Archive for the ‘Lithuania’ Category
New Review in Lithuanian-Canadian Weekly
20 Sep 2012 at 20:18
Julija Šukys
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On Writing About Terrible Things
13 Aug 2012 at 16:15
Julija Šukys
Biography, E-books, Eastern Europe, Epistolophilia, Friendship, Life-writing, Lithuania, Memory, Ona Šimaitė, Research, Uncategorized, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
A friend wrote me that she’d bought the Kindle version of Epistolophilia. She commented: “Really easy to read writing and I love the conversational style you use, although such a heavy topic. I find I have to read in doses. How did you keep from getting swallowed by sorrow while doing all the work and [...]
CNF Conversations: An Interview with Ellen Cassedy
30 Jun 2012 at 11:23
Julija Šukys
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We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. University of Nebraska Press, 2012. We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust tells the story of Ellen Cassedy’s personal journey into the Jewish heartland of Lithuania – the land of her Jewish forebears – and then expands into an exploration of how Lithuania today is engaging with [...]
Author Interview in Foreword Reviews this Week
03 Jun 2012 at 13:05
Julija Šukys
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Here’s an interview I did with ForeWord Reviews, a great publication that focuses on books published by independent presses. You can access the original here (scroll down to the bottom of the page): Conversational interviews with great writers who have earned a review in ForeWord Reviews. Our editorial mission is to continuously increase attention to [...]
Epistolophilia: A Few Thoughts on the Occasion of a Book’s Birth
16 Feb 2012 at 06:31
Julija Šukys
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The day before yesterday I received a note from my publisher saying that copies of my book had arrived in the warehouse, and that I could begin announcing its publication. Though my official date of publication is March 1, 2012, the baby’s come early. It’s a strange and great feeling to know that my book [...]
This is Who-Man: On Writing, Play, and Fun
19 Jan 2012 at 04:22
Julija Šukys
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This is Who-Man. My son and I invented him over breakfast this morning. Who-Man is a superhero whose arch-enemy is a many-eyed monster called “Crime.” Who-Man wears a bumpy suit (as you can see in Sebastian’s rendition of him above). The suit can shoot fire, but our hero rarely has to use this weapon. He [...]
CNF Conversations: Daiva Markelis
09 Aug 2011 at 19:56
Julija Šukys
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Daiva Markelis, White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American Life. University of Chicago Press, 2010. * Her parents never really explained what a D.P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that “displaced person” was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chicago suburb [...]
On Obscurity and the Long View
03 Aug 2011 at 18:43
Julija Šukys
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Janina Degutytė. Poezija/Poems. Trans. M.G. Slavėnas. Lithuanian Writers’ Union, Vilnius, 2003. I’ve been thinking about the issue of obscurity lately, because I’ve wanted to write about a book that’s been sitting on my desk for months now. It’s an English translation of the work of a Lithuanian poet, Janina Degutytė (1928-1990). She wrote her best [...]
Pre-order Epistolophilia
02 May 2011 at 14:18
Julija Šukys
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My second book is now a virtual reality at the University of Nebraska Press (never mind that it doesn’t even have a cover image yet! Ha!). I’m expecting the copy edit in a matter of weeks, then proofs, then voilà! If you’re the kind of person who likes to have all her ducks in a [...]
The Right to Write, or Whose Story is This Anyway?
28 Mar 2011 at 15:47
Julija Šukys
Autobiography, Biography, Creative Nonfiction, Exile, Lithuania, Memoir, Ona Šukienė, Personal Essays, Publishing, Research, Russia, Siberia, Stephen Elliott, Uncategorized, Villages, Writing
I’ve finally started writing my new book, Siberian Time, in earnest. It will tell the story of my grandmother’s 17-year exile to Siberia. Inevitably, too, it will tell stories about my family members: my father, his sisters, my cousins, my grandfather. Because my chosen forms are the personal essay and creative nonfiction, I almost always [...]
