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Lived Experience
May 10, 2022
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This article is so well written and speaks to an issue anyone interested in books for young people needs to think about.
Beats
May 3, 2022
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When I was a high school upperclassman and had already committed to a life in theatre (as only an adolescent can do) I was an avid reader of Harold Clurman and Walter Kerr.
History as Story
April 26, 2022
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I’m a believer in what the philosopher George Santayana once wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“Less is more.”
April 19, 2022
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Years ago—so many that I was typing on a portable typewriter—I had a deadline to meet. It involved finishing a book, and then typing it and delivering it by a certain day. Soon. (I wish I could remember which book, but I can’t.) I asked if I could use a friend’s out-of-town summer bungalow and took
Editor/Writer—Writer/Editor
April 12, 2022
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For a variety of reasons these days, there is a bit of vogue for self-publishing. One can have no objections to that. That said, I think one can find fault with self-editing. Not so much because it is wrong to go without external editing, but because one’s work suffers.
Learning to walk
April 5, 2022
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As some of you may have read here, I sustained a hip injury a couple of months ago when I slipped on some ice. After my initial fall, there was no pain, no surgery, no medications, I’m doing just fine, thank you. But I had a need for physical therapy.
Stepping back
March 29, 2022
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One of the advantages of working on more than one project is when you get tired (“I just can’t look on this again”) of book 1, you can go to book 2, just for a change of pace and text.
Evaluation
March 22, 2022
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A recent online review of my latest book, Loyalty, read: “ … since most of [Avi’s] books are short stories … I felt it was a little too long.”
Upon seeing my newest book
March 15, 2022
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Some twenty-three days after the presumptive official publication of my latest book, Loyalty, I received actual copies of the book.