Advice for Writers

This blog provides advice to writers on their literary work. See the end of this post for links on these topics: How can you get the full benefit of workshops? How can you work best with your mentor? What, when, and how should you publish?

Friday, May 24, 2013

A Tribute to Barbara Oliver (1927–2013)

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This week the San Francisco Bay Area received the very sad news that the wonderful actor, director, and arts administrator Barbara Oliver pa...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Interview with Liliana Heker

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This blog is an exclusive interview with the wonderful Argentine fiction writer Liliana Heker. Thanks to Andrea G. Labinger for translating ...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Liliana Heker: A Writer We Should All Know

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Scanning the shelves of the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library one day, hungry for good fiction, I ran across Liliana Heker’s  ...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Writers I Can’t Stop Reading, Part 6: Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) grew up in small towns in the state of Maine in the U.S.A. Millay’s mother was her only parent for most...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Writers I Can't Stop Reading, Part 5: June Jordan

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There are so many qualities I admire in June Jordan’s work that it’s hard to know where to begin.                                      ...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Writers I Can't Stop Reading, Part 4: Virginia Woolf

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Next on my list of writers I can’t stop reading is Virginia Woolf. No one can get inside the thoughts of characters like Woolf. She shows ho...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Writers I Can't Stop Reading, Part 3: Willa Cather

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I love the work of Willa Cather. I was introduced to her books by the children’s writer Marilyn Sachs , who pointed out to me that Cather is...
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Zack Rogow is an award-winning author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. Zack’s memoir about his dad, the writer Lee Rogow, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is available for creative writing manuscript critiques. You can contact him at zrogow at berkeley dot edu. His other recent books include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio, and The Number Before Infinity. You can watch a brief documentary on his writing or watch him read on YouTube. He's the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press. The entries in this blog are Copyright © 2011 to 2026 by Zack Rogow.
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