Sarah’s Writing Newsletter, Summer 2013
Sarah Seltzer
Dear Friends,
Happy summer! A few highlights from my winter writing are below.
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"Looking askance at the Goyim," an essay on Francesca Segal's The Innocents, Wharton and the Jews at the LA Review of Books. | "Replacement for a Child Lost." For the Forward I profiled memoirist Judy Mandel, who was born after a plane crash that killed her sister. |
Interviews with Kathryn Joyce about the evangelical adoption movement, with Jaclyn Friedman about feminism, sex and consent and with Assal Ghawami about her creepy short film, “The Yellow Room.” | Talking is a favorite activity of mine! Here I am "Talking About Jealousy of the Professional Variety" with Chanel at The Billfold and dishing on “Nashville” with Lauren at RHRC (congrats to Lauren on becoming ME of the site!)
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Feminist Miscellany: Fairness, Not Just Flowers, on how and why activists are using Mother’s Day to push policy agendas. Women Should Lean In, But Not Buy In to a Broken System. "Lean In" weigh-in at Medium. Why are campus rape horror stories still happening? a reported feature at AlterNet. |
Blogging at the Forward: Matthew Weiner: 'Mad Men' Are Us How Do You Solve a Problem Like the VIDA Count? |
 *A profile of tech guru Amy Webb, who wrote a book on data and love. |
Literary Ephemera: Talking Pride and Prejudice with other ladies at The Hairpin. And a longer piece at Medium:‘Pride and Prejudice’ and the perils of (mis)reading. A cool quote or two in this Atlantic story: The Mixed Results of Male Authors Writing Female Characters A flash fiction/fabulist piece about a Juice Cleanse that goes way too far at the LABA journal. |
- I have been reading Simon's incredible feature on Macklemore and his Q+A with household hero Thom Yorke, Bryce’s blogging at ThinkProgress, Julianne’s longread on RuPaul, Ben on Sam Lipsyte, Ilana's realtalk about Harvard, Elissa on the Book of Ruth, Zach's rant re: Gatsby, and Mike's take on Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner.
- Family shout outs to Dad's work on behalf the nurses' union, Mom's art (example above) honored at the ASL-NY, Simon's dad's new novel, my grandpa's appearance in a PBS film about his WWII unit and my twin, Dan, heading to Albany to be a clerk.
- Lastly: check out Atlas and Alice, a new cross-genre lit mag started and helmed by some beloved friends and classmates. Send your work their way!
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