Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
09 Aug 2011 at 19:56
Julija Šukys
Academia, Addiction, Autobiography, Catholicism, Children, Christianity, CNF Conversations, Conferences and Symposia, Creative Nonfiction, Daiva Markelis, Domesticity, Eastern Europe, Editing, Exile, Friendship, Language and Multilingualism, Lithuania, Louise DeSalvo, Memoir, Mothering, Publishing, Siberia, Uncategorized, Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius, Writing
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 [...]
03 Aug 2011 at 18:43
Julija Šukys
Biography, Eastern Europe, Epistolophilia, Friendship, Libraries, Lithuania, Ona Šimaitė, Poetry, Publishing, Research, Translation, Uncategorized, Vilnius, Writing
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 [...]
Work with Writers from Coast to Coast The Writers’ Union is seeking two members who are subject matter experts and skilled presenters to create and deliver professional development workshops on the topic of “How to be Your Own Publicist.” Specifically we are seeking one member who can present on traditional but innovative book marketing and [...]
