At Salon, Michele Filgate wonders if social media is replacing the role of writers' journals and letters, and what readers might lose in that transition.
Like most writers' journals, "Maya's Notebook" is a gathering of disparate materials that might have been the basis of a sharp and shapely novel.
Many writers' journals won't accept work that has been published anywhere else, and some publishing companies won't take work that's been published online, either.
This is a writers' journal, though, not a memoir.
Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, New York Post, Adweek, Big Apple Parent, MomSense, The Writers' Journal, divinecaroline.com, Elle, elle.com, more.com and Bitch magazine.
PERSONAL HISTORY culled from writer's journals over the years.
The New Yorker, March 7 , 1994P. 62 PERSONAL HISTORY culled from writer's journals over the years.
By Alfred Kazin The New Yorker, March 7 , 1994P. 62 PERSONAL HISTORY culled from writer's journals over the years.
Bachardy recently visited Berlin for the first time to talk about those influences and to commemorate the books' anniversaries with Katherine Bucknell, the Isherwood scholar who has edited the writer's journals and letters.
Too many writers, publishers, journals, opportunities – in other words a scene – draw other writers in like water to a drain, strengthening that scene but in doing so weakening the writing scenes in other places.
