by Admin | Feb 17, 2014 | college, creativity, fiction, meditation
Voluptua: A Novel Author(s): Jason Martin Release Date: June 1, 2013 Publisher/Imprint: Turn the Page Publishing Pages: 247 Buy on Amazon Reviewed by: Janet Levine “The writing is weak. Somewhere amid the tangle of words and images is the potential for a novel, but...
by Admin | Jun 4, 2013 | creativity, fiction, Uncategorized, young adults
From: The New York Journal of Books, June 4, 2013 Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: June 4, 2013 Publisher: Knopf (256 pages) “But this narrative, a story of family domesticity and femininity—desires, wiles, superstitions—is light fare for a historical novel that...
by Admin | Mar 26, 2013 | Children, fiction, Parenting, Uncategorized, young adults
Having read and thought so highly of Tsukiyama’s 1996 book “The Samurai’s Garden” I was excited to pick up “Dreaming Water” last week. It is well-reviewed and Tsukiyama is an esteemed American novelist but this one was obviously not...
by Admin | Jan 22, 2013 | apartheid, Conflagration, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, literary agent, Sharpeville massacre, South Africa, teaching tales
This is a cautionary tale told by an experienced practitioner (me) directed mainly at myself to heed my own words. Earlier this week I received copies of the Portuguese translation of my parenting book, Que Pai Ou Mae Quer Ser?. Definitely an “UP” moment...
by Admin | Nov 26, 2012 | apartheid, creativity, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, literary agent, mind structure, South Africa
Idly, one morning this Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I picked up a recently published academic history book on a black South African writer and read this phrase, “…on the terrain of language…” in the Introduction where the author, Hlonipha Mokoena, quotes the South...
by Admin | Sep 8, 2012 | apartheid, Conflagration, creativity, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, Leela's Gift, literary agent, Sharpeville massacre, South Africa
In my last post on this topic I blogged on some aspects of the relationship of writers and editors. For myself I can report that while there is progress with my latest project, a historical novel, it is a vexed adventure. As you can see from the title of this post I...
