Category: review
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Meanwhile at Mary Meuser Library
While I offer workshops at the Easton Area Public Library, I serve on the board of trustees for my local public library, the Mary Meuser Memorial Library in quaint Wilson Borough, Pa., which shares a zip code with neighboring Easton. I first joined the library board circa 2008 when my now-college-aged child…
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Writing Craft Books at Easton Library
I reached out to my friends at Easton Area Public Library, where I have free monthly writers workshops on the second Thursday of the month*, asking about what writing craft books they have in their collection. (It looks like most of them are cataloged around 808 if you plan on browsing the…
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Used Books in Coopersburg
Let’s come back to the Lehigh Valley and talk about our recent visit to Medina Books and Coffee on Main Street in Coopersburg, Pa. For our Readers: Medina Books and Coffee If you are a reader, Medina Books and Coffee has recently expanded their presence in Coopersburg, Pa. The store is a…
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Update on Writing Craft Books
Writing Craft Books In 2025, I hope to read or reread one writing craft book per month and add a review of it to this newsletter and to the curated, annotated bibliography available to my paid Substack subscribers. I have finished The People’s Guide to Publishing by Joe Biel of Microcosm Publishing. But the…
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My five-star reads of 2024
This list does not include any books by Parisian Phoenix authors or books that I have worked on as editor. These are the books I read this year that I thought deserved top marks– which is only 12 out of the 76 books I finished in 2024.
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Moravian Book Shop’s impact on my core memories of college
I have been working on a new resource for my paid subscribers of my Substack newsletter. It’s a page of writing craft books and my reviews of them. The list is available free here, but here you can taste what some of these books mean to me. BOOK: Shaughnessy, Susan.…
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Lessons from George Carlin
After two weeks of my daughter’s struggle with a double ear infection, vertigo and laryngitis— probably brought on by a mix of swinging weather between spring and deep winter & attending a late semester college frat party— I suddenly find myself drowning in phlegm with a cough. The doctor sees…
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Journalism Movies: Spotlight
The other day, something prompted me to think about journalism movies– I’m not sure what it was and I’m pretty sure it was something at the Museum of Printing that spurred the interest. As a Michael Keaton fan The Paper immediately popped into mind as one of my favorites. Another…
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On bookstores and Bibles
If you are a regular around here, you may know that Gayle Hendricks and I went to Massachusetts November 2 so that we could visit the museum of printing. We also visited Mystic, Connecticut; Andover, Massachusetts; Lowell, Massachusetts; and New Haven, Connecticut. Bookstores E.H. Jacobs held his book launch for…
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