Holiday Party: Mix and A-Mingle is a Swell Time – by Liberty Schauf Liberty Schauf is the WNBA-NYC Blog and Social Media Co-Editor. Liberty moved to New York from Houston in May 2012. She completed her M.S. in Publishing degree at Pace University in December 2012. Her career goal is to…
Women Writing Women’s Lives: How I Got that Story – by Jenna Vaccaro, Guest Blogger Jenna Vaccaro is the Co-Editor of the chapter newsletter, New York Bookwoman, and has also represented the WNBA-NYC as a Youth Representative to the United Nations. She is also a graduate student in the MS in…
From opening lines to literary inspiration and writing routines, Wednesday night’s National Reading Group Month author panel, hosted in the Rare Books Room at the Strand, aimed to get the audience “swept into the writers’ visions.” Led by moderator Elizabeth Nunez, the evening began with authors Bernice McFadden, Caroline Leavitt,…
by Liberty Schauf October’s Neighborhood Lunch was scrumptiously delicious in not only cuisine but in conversations as well. The Smorgas Chef at Scandinavian House on Park Avenue had a rustic feel mostly because of the massive birch tree in the middle of the dining room. Many WNBA-ers enjoyed the Swedish…
At New York Comic Con 2013 you could see fans sporting every costume from Star Trek to Star Wars, Disney to Doctor Who, The Avengers to The Justice League. However, not everybody in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center this past weekend was there to see new video games, comic…
Did you stop by the WNBA and National Reading Group Month booth at The Brooklyn Book Festival? Check out these photos, courtesy of Hannah Bennett and Michelle Weyenberg, who worked the booth last weekend. Missed this year’s festival? Get caught up with these recaps from around the web: LA Times: Some…
In Conversation: Ruth Oseki and Carol DeSanti – by Deborah Batterman
If the WNBA-NYC networking event on September 11th was a reminder that writers thrive in community, the second event of the season resonated with the wisdom that we need quiet and possibly isolation to do our work. In a cozy room at Reflections, a Midtown yoga studio, attendees got to listen to Ruth Ozeki in conversation with Carol DeSanti.
Chapter President Jane Denning got the evening started with a very gracious introduction to “two remarkable women.” As Vice President, Editor-at-Large, at Viking Penguin, Carol DeSanti has gained a reputation for championing women’s voices in fiction; her novel, The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R, speaks to her own voice in the world of letters. As a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, Ruth Ozeki brings a multi-dimensional view to her work. In a Bookseller interview, she had this to say about a sense of displacement running through her three critically acclaimed novels: “I’ve always felt neither here nor there. Maybe for a writer that’s the best place to be. You’re never in the middle of the stream; you’re always on the edge looking in.” Her latest novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was recently named a Man Booker Prize shortlist selection.
Wednesday evening , several members of the WNBA-NYC met up at the New York Public Library to take a trip through the history of children’s literature. From picture book classics, down Alice’s rabbit hole, through the Secret Garden, the Harlem Renaissance, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, we were…
by Tqwana Brown Do your feet hurt? Shoulders ache? Back sore? Then you, like me, are suffering from the BEA Experience. For four days last week, the Javits Center turned into a theme park for the publishing industry. Chances are your body is still recovering from walking the exhibition floor,…
by Heather Allen This year the women of the WNBA-NYC chapter organized a Bookstore Crawl on the Upper East Side. Our intimate group of seven braved a potential downpour to travel to these small, but significant bookstores. While at each store, we heard about the history and the ownership of…
