Archive for December 2022
Interview With Priscilla Long
It was such a joy to meet Priscilla Long and I’m so excited to introduce her and her wonderful work to you! Priscilla’s recently released Dancing with the Muse in Old Age is a spirited, richly researched, empowering work of nonfiction. I love Priscilla’s no-nonsense approach, her zero-tolerance for ageism, and her deep respect for…
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Deirdre Fagan, Author of Find a Place for Me in hippocampus magazine
Interview by Diane Gottlieb Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death is a memoir about facing a marriage’s last act as a couple united in mind and holding hands. Deirdre and Bob are married eleven years and have two young children when forty-three-year-old Bob is diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral…
Read MoreWhen You Look Back, “Look Back with Love”
Anybody else thinking the holidays are coming too soon? I can’t believe it’s that time again (but it is)! I can’t believe I’m having another birthday (my 62nd)! But I can (and do) believe that there are wonderful things ahead! Here are three things I’m excited for in 2023: I’m editing an anthology coming…
Read MoreBackStory: Five Questions with Diane Gottlieb in FlashBack Fiction
BackStory: Five Questions with Diane Gottlieb Author of From Here to Eternity What inspired you to write ‘From Here to Eternity’? My mother-in-law is 98 years old! She lived with us until she needed memory care, and now she is in a lovely facility—and strings lots of beads. I often think about what it must be…
Read MoreFrom Here to Eternity in Flashback Fiction
So, I’m going to live forever. Living forever was never my plan but it must be God’s because I’m 98 and while I’ve lost a few teeth and my bladder control (keep that to yourself, will you?), I have every marble I came to earth with in ’24. Same year as Marlon Brando (be still…
Read MoreBREAKING THE CYCLE—A REVIEW OF SUSAN TRIEMERT’S GUESS WHAT’S DIFFERENT in Atticus Review
Susan Triemert’s brilliant collection of flash essays Guess What’s Different opens with Triemert strapped into a slow-moving ambulance: “Ambulances are for emergencies, right? You realize that yours, the one you’re strapped into, has two jobs: to carry you from one hospital to another. And to keep you safe—from yourself. …” Triemert is being transported from the ER…
Read MoreLiterary Spotlight: Emerge Literary Journal (Melissa Hart interviews Diane Gottlieb
In 2011, poet and author Ariana D. Den Bleyker saw a need for publications catering to people without numerous bylines and launched Emerge Literary Journal to showcase their work. Over the past year, staff at the magazine expanded her vision to include established writers who want to attempt a new genre or form. “So, let’s say you’re…
Read MoreAntioch LitCit #31 Podcast Interview with Janet Rodriguez
Antioch LitCit #31 Podcast Interview with Janet Rodriguez
Read MoreInterview with Lynne Golodner
Energy and resourcefulness! Those are the two words that immediately come to mind when I think of Lynne Golodner, a writer, entrepreneur and champion of writers who want to move their work forward and get it out into the world. Lynne is a social media expert with a special niche for author branding. Her own…
Read MoreTombstones and Trees in The Jewish Literary Journal
I was 44 when I bought a tombstone. It was a double, to stand guard over two side-by-side burial plots. This was not advanced planning or an attempt to lock in the space and price of prime cemetery real estate. I wasn’t following Midrashic advice that suggests buying plots when you’re alive and well. Neither…
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