The Waiting Game
Lovely readers, to distract myself while I've waited to hear from editors, I've run across a number of interesting things, and here they are for you.
If you'll be in the NYC area on November 6, there's an interesting panel, Coloring Outside of the Identity Lines: Upside & Downside of Being a Latina Author, at the Newark Public Library at 2 p.m. Speakers include Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Elizabeth Llorente, Marcela Landres, Caridad Piñeiro, and others. For info, go here and scroll down.
On the eve of my 43rd birthday, shuffling around the apartment in The Lustbuster (pajama pants and oversized, secondhand, padded men's flannel shirt--effect: pregnant lumberjack), I was happy to learn about this book and documentary, both named Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 60. Something to look forward to!
Speaking of birthdays, a big shout-out to my friend Ariana Vigil, teacher and scholar extraordinaire, who's just broken 30! ¡Órale, mujer!
On the vexy issue of tenure, AAUP president Cary Nelson wants us to get the word out to parents of college students on why their kids are better off being taught by tenured and tenure-track faculty members. Here's his take.
The AAUP also wants to collect information on the vast multitude of college and university teachers who have contingent employment--that is, they're not tenured or tenure-track, and they can be hired and fired at whim. If you're among this lot, the AAUP wants to help give you a voice. To fill out their survey, go here.
Sweet friend Faye, whose interview with Fourth Genre founder Mike Steinberg appears in this month's AWP Writer's Chronicle, kindly gave me the gift of The Elegance of the Hedgehog recently, and it inspired me to move on to Anna Karenina, which is so fresh and marvelous that I can't put it down. I took it out for dinner the other night, just me and Vronsky and Oblonsky. (Note: Tolstoy goes very well with Thai.) Ladies: sit at a bar, put on a real or fake wedding ring, eat dinner alone, and read Anna Karenina. Your evening will get interesting.
From Pub Lunch, this intriguing news: "Europa Editions has launched Tonga Books, a new imprint focusing on dark, literary titles that will be acquired and curated by Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold." Just got done teaching Sebold's Lucky to a new crop of grad students, who loved her boldness, care, craft, and finesse. I can't wait to see the kinds of books she picks.
And speaking of dark literary titles, Lovely Agent Mitchell, when consulted about what I may and may not blog about regarding the submissions process of THE DESIRE PROJECTS, instructed, in his agently wisdom, that I "keep it minimal and positive and not name any names," which sounds excitingly cloak-and-dagger to me. And I am nothing if not discreet.
So I'll be doing it like that, like this: F---- C----, the very brilliant editor at the very prestigious house S----- & M------, adores my manuscript (which he/she cannot, to his/her sincere regret, publish).
Riveting pub gossip, no? Bate your breath now.
If you'll be in the NYC area on November 6, there's an interesting panel, Coloring Outside of the Identity Lines: Upside & Downside of Being a Latina Author, at the Newark Public Library at 2 p.m. Speakers include Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Elizabeth Llorente, Marcela Landres, Caridad Piñeiro, and others. For info, go here and scroll down.
On the eve of my 43rd birthday, shuffling around the apartment in The Lustbuster (pajama pants and oversized, secondhand, padded men's flannel shirt--effect: pregnant lumberjack), I was happy to learn about this book and documentary, both named Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 60. Something to look forward to!
Speaking of birthdays, a big shout-out to my friend Ariana Vigil, teacher and scholar extraordinaire, who's just broken 30! ¡Órale, mujer!
On the vexy issue of tenure, AAUP president Cary Nelson wants us to get the word out to parents of college students on why their kids are better off being taught by tenured and tenure-track faculty members. Here's his take.
The AAUP also wants to collect information on the vast multitude of college and university teachers who have contingent employment--that is, they're not tenured or tenure-track, and they can be hired and fired at whim. If you're among this lot, the AAUP wants to help give you a voice. To fill out their survey, go here.
Sweet friend Faye, whose interview with Fourth Genre founder Mike Steinberg appears in this month's AWP Writer's Chronicle, kindly gave me the gift of The Elegance of the Hedgehog recently, and it inspired me to move on to Anna Karenina, which is so fresh and marvelous that I can't put it down. I took it out for dinner the other night, just me and Vronsky and Oblonsky. (Note: Tolstoy goes very well with Thai.) Ladies: sit at a bar, put on a real or fake wedding ring, eat dinner alone, and read Anna Karenina. Your evening will get interesting.
From Pub Lunch, this intriguing news: "Europa Editions has launched Tonga Books, a new imprint focusing on dark, literary titles that will be acquired and curated by Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold." Just got done teaching Sebold's Lucky to a new crop of grad students, who loved her boldness, care, craft, and finesse. I can't wait to see the kinds of books she picks.
And speaking of dark literary titles, Lovely Agent Mitchell, when consulted about what I may and may not blog about regarding the submissions process of THE DESIRE PROJECTS, instructed, in his agently wisdom, that I "keep it minimal and positive and not name any names," which sounds excitingly cloak-and-dagger to me. And I am nothing if not discreet.
So I'll be doing it like that, like this: F---- C----, the very brilliant editor at the very prestigious house S----- & M------, adores my manuscript (which he/she cannot, to his/her sincere regret, publish).
Riveting pub gossip, no? Bate your breath now.
fayepoet said:
Great post, Joy. Thanks
October 9, 2010 1:24 AM