Author: Angel Ackerman
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
I don’t “doom scroll.” I got my first iPhone in 2009 to settle my anxiety. Everything I could need was in my pocket, accessible by a tiny computer known as the iPhone 3GS. I start my mornings and end my evenings by checking my email, studying dog training videos (as…
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Reflections on My Left Foot
I ended up reading Christy Brown’s My Left Foot this weekend. (The movie stars Daniel Day Lewis. I watched that also.) Christy, born in 1932 as a middle child in an Irish Catholic family of 22 children, had cerebral palsy. The only limb he could control was his left foot— and he even learned to…
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Night of the Swaying Grass
Tomorrow, The Night of Swaying Grass debuts. This memoir by R. Diskin Black features 63 poems that tell Black’s history, celebrates finding oneself, honors the heritage of New York City and explores topics from finding oneself to recognizing the AIDS crisis of the late 1980s. Black understands that life is hard but he also knows,…
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Upcoming Events at Parisian Phoenix Publishing
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Mouth Shut Head Down
Today, we release of Geraldine Donaher’s young adult novel, Mouth Shut Head Down. She has a launch party planned at Immaculata University on Saturday, January 31. For more information and to RSVP, visit Geraldine’s web site, geraldinedonaher.com. This book aims to teach teens and their families about coercive control in relationships and the signs of human trafficking. Sex…
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The Parisian Phoenix Event Schedule
(which seems to grow every day!) February March April May June Other Books Slated for 2026
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Meet Jemima
Marilyn Jaye Lewis signed a contract with us last month for her novel, The Curse of Our Profound Disorder. Marilyn tells me that this project dates back 25 years. She sent me a sample in the spring, asking if I might be interested if she should finish it. Something about her writing style…
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Poetry worthy of a Parisian Café
The celebration for Nancy Scott’s 1,000 career bylines included candy cigarettes, espresso, and croissants reminiscent of the beat poets in a long-lost mid-twentieth century Paris cafe. Let me give you this video of Nan reading her poem “The Knife,” which appeared in Disabled Tales, an online journal from the United Kingdom, as byline 999. You can…
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Promoting Writing
Last night, after the snowstorm, I curled up on the couch with the dog (eating boxed macaroni and cheese and Chick-fil-A nuggets) and watched half of comedian/author David Nihill’s Shelf Help. I didn’t expect an Irish comedian to have a special involving reading recommendations. (It’s on YouTube if you want to watch: Shelf Help.)…
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Time for Writing
I’ve seen regular writing sessions events at Book & Puppet Company in downtown Easton (with local entrepreneur Andy Laties) and also at Nazareth Library. We’re hoping to start a writing group and possibly some writing workshops at Mary Meuser Memorial Library probably at the end of February. I was even thinking of making drop-in times 4 to…
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