From Neiman Storyboard by author Lauren Kessler Hacking and whacking the way to writing clarity — and pie An author and freelancer contemplates story craft as she tames and harvests the blackberry brambles on her land They are sweet, tart, succulent and tangy. Summer on the tongue. The mighty blackberry: as big as your thumb; …
From laurenchronicles.com Ten tables, ten minutes at each table. Around these tables sit my favorite people: Book lovers. But not just book lovers. Professional book lovers. Bookstore owners and staff, librarians. The people whose lives are about connecting readers with writers. On Monday I was one of those writers. It was Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s (PNBA) fall …
In these days of Wikileaks, oversharing on Facebook, and one-click answers from Google, library research has been relegated to the purview of yesteryear historians and diehard scholars, and the arrival of a cache of new information is often met with skepticism, or simply a big yawn. So it was somewhat surprising recently to find myself …
We love how Lauren Kessler compares blogging (“going commando”) to the real editorial process (“growing a baby”) in her funny recent essay in her online magazine, Etude. And we don’t mind being sweet-talked a little when she refers to the “oh-so discerning blog that features interviews with you or reviews your book.” We interviewed Kessler about …
Six Eugene artists and writers will read from Ken Kesey’s letters and original manuscripts December 2 as a fundraiser to help the University of Oregon’s library acquire the Kesey collection, which includes typewritten manuscripts, artwork, collages, photographs and correspondence, dating from 1960 – 2001. The UO has an opportunity to purchase the collection from the …
What you are about to see is a BOOK TRAILER for My Teenage Werewolf. Book trailers – like film trailers but, you know, for books – are the newest thing in web-based promotion. Oh, I said the P word. Authors are not supposed to say the P word. We are restricted to the C word …
Lauren Kessler, who teaches creative non-fiction to grad students at the University of Oregon in Eugene, spent the last eighteen months studying her teenage daughter’s life–with her daughter’s permission, and perhaps even encouragement. Can you imagine your teenage daughter agreeing to let you follow her around all day long to find out what and who …
In Lauren Kessler’s brave new book, My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence, the Eugene journalist ventures into middle school classrooms, locker rooms and even to summer camp. That’s intrepid enough, but Kessler did this with her teenaged daughter. She wanted to understand her changing relationship with her …
