Hey there!
Hope you’ve had a fantastic holiday!
I’ll be hosting a conversation via Zoom tomorrow to talk about the next set of three essays in the collection, Best American Essays, as planned. Are you up for it?
This is the third of seven weeks.
Tomorrow, Sunday 11/26.
11:00
Same Zoom link as last week: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7599353084?pwd=Y0NNOG9mNGhPd1lnaHhicDN1L2JXZz09
For those who haven’t joined the first three jump in! We don’t stay too long—an hour, or up to an hour and a half.
It’s long enough to have an inspiring conversation.
Remember, we don’t have to love all the essays. Some may be more thrilling than others, more compelling for various reasons, more surprising perhaps…but we don’t even need to rate or rank them in relation to each other. We can look at each one and consider questions of what an essay can do.
For me, they all inspire my own contribution to the ongoing conversation out there in the world, in terms of writing.
Reading is always the perfect partner to writing…and having a chance to talk about ideas is great. I appreciate all of you.
See you tomorrow, perhaps?
xo
I’m a doctor.
—The Rough Ride, by Sandra Hager Eliason
From West Trade Review
It is difficult to be brief but comprehensive about an idea so vast in scope.
—Concision: A Sprawl, by George Estreich
From AGNI
“Did you ever have sex with another woman,” I asked my husband when he was eighty-five and we had been married for sixty-two years.
—Revelation at the Food Bank, by Merrill Joan Gerber
From The Sewanee Review
Come join us!
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7599353084?pwd=Y0NNOG9mNGhPd1lnaHhicDN1L2JXZz09
I will be there with Christmas bells on even. I hope your Thanksgiving has been wonderful Monica.
I appreciate every one of you who joined! And I miss those of you who didn't make it this round....Oh, holidays! Hope to see you all again! xo